A successful nursing education promotes newly graduated nurses’ job satisfaction one year after graduation: a cross-sectional multi-country study

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Anna Brugnolli¹  Célia Simão De Oliveira²  Laura Visiers-Jiménez³  Alvisa Palese⁴  Jana Nemcová⁵  Sanna Koskinen⁶  Satu Kajander-Unkuri⁷  Helena Leino-Kilpi⁸  Leena Salminen⁸  Renáta Zeleníková⁹  Pilar Fuster-Linares^1,10  Herdís Sveinsdóttir^1,11  Natalja Istomina^1,12  Gabriele Meyer^1,13  Marília Rua^1,14  Susan Hourican^1,15  Eliisa Löyttyniemi^1,16 

[1] Azienda Per I Servizi Sanitari Provinciali, University of Verona, 38123, Trento, Italy;Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Lisbon School of Nursing—ESEL (Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa), 1600-096, Lisbon, Portugal;Department of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, San Juan de Dios, Fundación San Juan de Dios, Alberto Aguilera, 23, 28015, Madrid, Spain;Department of Medicine, Udine University, 33100, Udine, Italy;Department of Nursing Science, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, 03601, Martin, Slovakia;Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland;Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland;Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, 00580, Helsinki, Finland;Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland;Turku University Hospital, 20521, Turku, Finland;Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ostrava, 70103, Ostrava, Czech Republic;Department of Nursing, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 08017, Barcelona, Spain;Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, 07, Reykjavík, Iceland;Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius University, 01513, Vilnius, Lithuania;Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06108, Halle (Saale), Germany;School of Health Sciences, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal;School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;Turku University Hospital, 20521, Turku, Finland;Department of Biostatistics, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland;

关键词: Intention to stay;    Job satisfaction;    Newly graduated nurse;    Nursing;    Nursing education;    Transition;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12912-023-01438-y

 received in 2023-04-20, accepted in 2023-08-08,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundJob satisfaction is a key factor for the successful transition of newly graduated nurses (NGNs) and for retaining NGNs in their workplaces. However, there is limited evidence of the relationship between satisfaction regarding the nursing education program and NGNs’ job satisfaction in the first year after graduation. Therefore, this study aims to examine the association of the nursing education related factors and NGNs’ job satisfaction.MethodsA cross-sectional study design with the utilization of data collected from the same respondents one year earlier as educational factors was applied. The data were collected from NGNs (n = 557) in 10 European countries using an electronic survey between February 2019 and September 2020, and analyzed in detail for four countries (n = 417). Job satisfaction was measured with three questions: satisfaction with current job, quality of care in the workplace, and nursing profession. Nursing education related factors were satisfaction with nursing education program, level of study achievements, nursing as the 1st study choice, intention to stay in nursing, and generic nursing competence. The data were analyzed statistically using logistic regression.ResultsMost of the NGNs in the 10 countries were satisfied with their current job (88.3%), the quality of care (86.4%) and nursing profession (83.8%). Finnish, German, Lithuanian and Spanish NGNs’ satisfaction with the nursing education program at graduation was statistically significantly associated with their job satisfaction, i.e., satisfaction with their current job, the quality of care, and the nursing profession. Moreover, NGNs who had fairly often or very often intention to stay in nursing at graduation were more satisfied with their current job, with the quality of care, and with the nursing profession compared with NGNs who had never or fairly seldom intention to stay in nursing at graduation.ConclusionsNursing education plays a significant role in NGNs’ job satisfaction one year after graduation, indicating the importance to start career planning already during nursing education. Both nursing education providers and healthcare organizations could plan in close collaboration a transition program for NGNs to ease the transition phase and thus increase the NGNs’ job satisfaction and ultimately the high-quality care of the patients.

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