수술실간호사의 임파워먼트 지각수준과 직무만족 = Empowerment Perception Level and Job Satisfaction of Operation Room Nurses

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was accomplished to improve nurses' official duties, job efficiency and quality and to provide the data for nursing management, as that found interrelation of empowerment perception level and job satisfaction of operation room nurses.
Two instruments were used for this study. One is the structural factors of empowerment developed by Chandler based on Kanter's theory. Another is the index of work satisfaction developed by Slavitt.
The data were collected from 170 operation room nurses of 7 General Hospitals from July. 6, 2001 to July. 20, 2001 and analyzed with SPSS program.
The results are as following :
1. Empowerment perception level of the operation room nurses is positive and the mean score of empowerment factors is ranked by support, opportunity, resource and information.
2. Job satisfaction of the operation room nurses is positive and the mean score of job satisfaction factors is ranked by personal relationship, professional pride, autonomy, social standing management, payment, work conditions.
3. In empowerment perception level to the general character of operation room nurses, the nurses who are higher in position than charge nurse and worked for more than 10 years perceived the empowerment positively.
4. In job satisfaction to the general character of operation room nurses, job satisfaction of the nurses, higher in position than charge nurses was showed to be higher than that of the other nurses.
5. Empowerment and job satisfaction are showed to be relative each other according to the research result.
In conclusion, both factors were found to be correlated each other according to the result of studying interrelation between empowerment and job satisfaction, I think we have to develop the education and the training program to empower the operation room nurses.