scholarly journals The link between nurse workplace environment and patient satisfaction with nursing care services

Author(s):  
Hayder AL- Hadrawi
Author(s):  
Hayder AL- Hadrawi

Patient satisfaction has become an integral part of the process of measuring the quality of the provided care. Patients’ satisfaction about healthcare services increases in institutions that provide healthy workplace environment for nurses.This quantitative study aims to measure the impact of nurse practice environment on patients’ satisfaction with the provided nursing care services. A cross-sectional design was conducted to survey 75 male and female nurses and 107 inpatients who were hospitalized at least one day and aged 17 years and older. Sample was selected from medical and surgical wards of two main teaching hospitals in AL-Najaf province, Iraq.The results show that 80% of the nurses work in poor practice environment. About 52% of the patients were partially satisfied with nursing care; whereas, about 47% of the patients were unsatisfied. A significant correlation was found between nurse practice environment and patients’ satisfaction p < .05; regression analysis shows that patients’ satisfaction can be predicted based on nurse-patient ratio. Conclusion: Enhancing the practice environment of nurses helps improving the quality of healthcare and achieving better level of patients’ satisfaction with nursing care services.  Keywords: Nurses workplace; patient satisfaction; practice environment; nursing care;   


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wardah ◽  
Dr Said Usman ◽  
Dr Elly Wardani

BACKGROUND፡ Patients experience first-hand quality services from nurses who are directly responsible for their welbeing. However, patient dissatisfaction with nursing services remains a problem in most developing countries. Therefore, this study aims to explore patient satisfaction with nursing care services in an Indonesian hospital.METHOD: A qualitative study with a descriptive phenomenology method was employed. Also, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 informants, and thematic analysis was adopted to analyze the data.RESULTS: The results of this study are described in the following themes and sub-themes: (1) hospital existence in public eyes: a) service commitment b) accessibility; (2) patients’ background: a) religious aspect, b) cultural influence on perceiving health and sickness.CONCLUSION: Hospital management needs to enhance the quality of nursing services through sustainable education programs and continuous training. These are important to improve nurses’ cognition and skills, and further to ensure patient satisfaction and hospital quality.


e-NERS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Christin Tiwa ◽  
Jimmy Posangi ◽  
Herman Warouw

Abstract: A service although can be counted satisfy to patient but the aplication do not according to the ethical code and atandart, it is not a quality service. It is, therefore very important the role of  nursing care is very important the affect the patient's satisfaction. The purpose of research know is to the relationship of quality nursing care to the level of satisfaction of hospitalized patients at the department of Irina A Prof Dr R D Kandou Manado. The study design is using observational analytic cross-sectional approach. The Population of the patients who cared at department of Irina A Prof Dr R D Kandou Manado with the average of 180 patients a month. Sixtyvive samples were used in this research . The data is processed by using univariate and bivariate chi square calculations. The results show the relationship of quality nursing care to inpatient satisfaction majority of good quality (58.5%) and poor (41.5%) and to the satisfaction of the majority of the patients were less satisfied (50.8%) and the satisfied (49.2%). As a Conclusion, there is a significant correlation between the quality of nursing care with the patient satisfaction and quality of serviceis assumed as good. As a suggestion the quality of nursing care services of hospital management should be further enhance which can support the profesionalism of the nurses, so the patient satisfaction archieved can be maximized. Keywords: nursing service, patient satisfaction.     Abstrak: Suatu pelayanan sekalipun di nilai dapat memuaskan pasien tetapi penyelenggaraannya tidak sesuai dengan kode etik dan standar bukanlah pelayanan yang bermutu. Oleh karena itu perawat sangat berperan penting dalan pelayanan keperawatan karena berpengaruh dengan kepuasan pasien. Tujuan penelitin mengetahui hubungan kualitas pelayanan keperawatan dengan tingkat kepuasan pasien rawat inap di Irina A RSUP Prof Dr R D Kandou Manado. Desain penelitian observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Populasi seluruh pasien yang berada di ruang rawat inap Irina A RSUP Prof Dr R D Kandou Manado dengan rata-rata pasien per bulan sebanyak 180. Sampel penelitian 65 pasien. Data diolah secara univariat dan bivariat dengan menggunakan perhitungan chi square. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan hubungan kualitas pelayanan keperawatan dengan tingkat kepuasan pasien rawat inap mayoritas kuaitas pelayanan keperawatan yang baik (58,5%) dan yang kurang baik (41,5%) dan untuk kepuasan mayoritas pasien kurang puas (50,8%) dan yang puas (49,2%). Kesimpulan terdapat hubungan  yang bermakna antara kualitas pelayanan keperawatan dengan tingkat kepuasan pasien dan kualitas pelayanannya sudah baik. Saran pihak manajemen rumah sakit hendaknya lebih meningkatkan lagi kualitas pelayanan keperawatan yang dapat menunjang profesionalitas seorang perawat sehingga tingkat kepuasan  pasien bisa maksimal. Kata Kunci: pelayanan keperawatan,  kepuasan pasien.


Nursing Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1189-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojgan Lotfi ◽  
Vahid Zamanzadeh ◽  
Leila Valizadeh ◽  
Mohammad Khajehgoodari

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 410-410
Author(s):  
Q. Yuan ◽  
H. Ruan ◽  
G. Chen

Social Change ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawan Kumar Sharma ◽  
Shaik Iftikhar Ahmed ◽  
Manisha Bhatia

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 502-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Wright ◽  
Sherry Causey ◽  
Jacqueline Dienemann ◽  
Paula Guiton ◽  
Frankie Sue Coleman ◽  
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