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Background: Identification of factors that influence job satisfaction can impact the efficiency and quality of nursing services and personal life. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate factors affecting job satisfaction of nurses in Isfahan hospitals
Materials & Methods: this study is cross – sectional and was conducted in 2013 on 100 nurses in private and public hospitals of Isfahan, which were selected by multistage sampling method. A two-part questionnaire was used to collect data: the first part was comprised from the demographic information and the second part was related to job satisfaction. Data analyzed by spss version 11, ANOVA and t-test at The significance level of 5% .
Results: In this study, only 35% of nurses were satisfied with their current job. Job satisfaction was significantly related with job position (p=0.001), type of employment (p=0.02) and sector of hospital (p=0.001).
Conclusion: It is essential for nurses managers to consider job position, type of employment and sector of hospital for improving the job satisfaction of their staff and, in this way, they can develop some plans to improve job satisfaction.
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