Job Satisfaction Among Nurses in the University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract

Job satisfaction among Nurses has been identified as important factor and a key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in sub-Saharan African. It is therefore paramount to understand what motivates Nurses and to what extent they are satisfied with the organizations they work with and other contextual variables, this study therefore seeks to provide information to fill in the gaps about job satisfaction among health professionals especially Nurses in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A descriptive cross sectional design was adopted to explore the level of job satisfaction and organizational commitment among Nurses who were randomly selected from the twelve departments in the University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). The study revealed that more than half of the respondents were satisfied with their jobs (51%) however, low pay and poor working conditions were the principal causes of dissatisfaction and low motivation. The management of the hospital should gear efforts towards correcting this lapse in order to achieve its organizational goal.