Job Satisfaction in Nursing Assistants

Abstract

This article analyzes the level of satisfaction of auxiliary nursing personnel in two services of an E.S.E. in the city of Popayán-Colombia. The research was of a descriptive transversal nature, with a quantitative approach. Sixty nursing assistants participated. The Font Roja questionnaire was used, the information was analyzed by means of the statistical program SPSS (v25) for the level of satisfaction and the one-factor Anova test was calculated for significant differences. In general terms, the Nursing Assistants of the E.S.E. are located in the medium range of satisfaction in the factors evaluated. When disaggregating the level of job satisfaction by sociodemographic factors, differences were only found in the comparisons by service: a higher level of satisfaction in the Emergency area than in the Neonatal area. Statistically, in relation to gender, the differences were not significant, but at a descriptive level, it was revealed that men were more satisfied than women. The results suggest further observation and intervention strategies to help raise the level of worker satisfaction.