Impact of Nurses' Perceived Job-Related Stressors on Job Satisfaction in Makkah Governmental Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Job related stressors and Job dissatisfaction are becoming an increasingly large disorder. Stress has a cost forindividuals in terms of health,wellbeing &job dissatisfaction as Well as in terms of absenteeism and turnover which in turn affect the quality of patient care. This study aimed to determine the main nurse’s perceived job related stressors and its relationship with job satisfaction in Makkahgovernmental hospitals in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A descriptive correlational cross sectional study was carried out on a convenience sample of 148 nurse using expanded nursing stress and job satisfactionscales.The results have shown that most stressful subscale for nurses was Dealing with Patients and their families as “Frequently Stressful”, and the least stressful subscale was inadequate preparation to help with the emotional needs of patients and their families as ”Occasionally Stressful”. There was a negative significant relationship between perceived job related stress and job satisfaction among staff nurses in Makkah governmental hospitals as indicated by (Pearson correlation = - .437, P < 0.05). The study concluded that Makkah Governmental Hospital staff nurses were exposed to many kinds of job related stressors which affected their level of job satisfaction which emphasis adopting strategies to reduce perceived job related stress and thus increase job satisfaction which will be reflected on patient care quality.