英文摘要 |
The shortage of nursing workforce can affect the medical care system and patients’ security. At present, literature probing nurses’ retention mostly focuses on factors like wages, benefits, supervisors’ leaderships, organization atmosphere, etc. However, the impact of workplace violence on job satisfaction and nurses’ retention is under researched. Hence, this paper aims to explore the co-relationships of nurses’ job satisfaction, retention and workplace violence。The study targets at 300 nurses who have worked over three months, and uses purposive sampling to conduct the cross-sectional study by giving questionnaires administered between Feb. 22 to March 21. The effective response rate is 99%. The research findings show that: (1) verbal violence is the most common type of workplace violence suffered by the respondents (39.7%);patentients and their families are in the top rank of perpetuaters (37%-83%). (2) Over 60% of respondents who will report the workplace violence when encounter, but the average score of satisfaction on the extent to which the workplace violence has been properly handled is 3.14 out of a 5 point-scale. (3) Nurses’ job satisfaction has positive influence on retention, while workplace violence has negative intervention on job satisfaction and nurses’ retention. (4) Verbal violence has negative impact on extrinsic job satisfaction, workplace violence also has negative impact on job satisfaction, and work place violence has negative impact on nurses’ retention. The study result can serve as a reference for hospital supervisors and nursing heads to improve the problem of work place violence, so as to nurses’ job satisfaction and retention. |