Assessment Of Occupational Stress Job Satisfaction And Associated Factors Among Nurses In East Gojjam Zone Public Hospitals Northwest Ethiopia 2016

Background: Occupational stress and job satisfaction are reported to be interrelated. Occupationalrnstress has been reported to affect job satisfaction among nurses, thus compromising nursing care andrnplacing patients’ lives at risk. Nursing has been identified and reported by a number of studies as arnstressful occupation. Occupational stress is a serious condition for nursing professionals that isrndirectly associated with impaired and inappropriate performance and working within clinical settings.rnThe low job satisfaction among nurses results negative outcome that affect both quality and cost ofrnpatient care.rnObjective: To assess the level of occupational stress, job satisfaction and associated factors amongrnnurses in East Gojjam Zone Public hospitals Northwest Ethiopia 2016.rnMethod: Institutional based Cross-sectional study design was used. Sampling method was simplernrandom sampling and data was collected from March 8 to 23, 2016. Source population of the studyrnwere all nurses who work at public hospitals in East Gojjam zone public hospitals and sample sizernwas 181 nurses from the four hospitals. After nurses were proportionally allocated to size from thernfour hospitals. Data were collected through pretested self administered structured questionnaire. Bothrndescriptive and inferential statistics were used to present the datarnResults: Among the study participants 102(57.3%) of nurses were occupationally stressful. workloadrnsubscale was the most sources of stress for nurses.Sex and work experience of respondents werernsignificantly associated with occupational stress. Overall average prevalence rate of job satisfactionrnof this study was 54.2%, which was at moderate level. The most highly satisfied subscale for studyrnparticipants was nature of work. There was a significance mean difference of job satisfaction betweenrnage groups, between sex of respondents and between nurses who had children and nurses who had nornchildren.rnConclusion and Recommendation: More than half of the nurses were occupationally stressful. Thernaverage job satisfaction of nurses was at moderate level. There was a very weak negative but nonernsignificant correlation between occupational stress and job satisfaction .The Amhara regional healthrnbureau and study hospitals should develop stress reduction management programs and financial andrnnon financial benefit packages should be balanced to increase job satisfaction among nurses.rnKey Words: Occupational stress, Job satisfaction, Nurses

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