BACKGROUND Working at intensive care unit (ICU) is one ot the most difticult and taxing nursing speciaites. It demans not only extensive knowledge and professional skills but also specific personality temperamental dispositions. The aim of the study was to verify if typeA behavior (TAB) is a predictor ofburnout and job satisfaction in ICU nurses and if this effect still exists after controlling...

A study was undertaken to know the important aspects of job situation in terms of stress factors which influence job satisfaction. The two top ranking stress factors found were prescribing costly medicines to poor livestock owner and large animal practices especially attending dystocia. However majority of the veterinarians perceived medium level of stress.

BACKGROUND Ongoing changes in cancer care cause an increase in the complexity of cases which is characterized by modern treatment techniques and a higher demand for patient information about the underlying disease and therapeutic options. At the same time, the restructuring of health services and reduced funding have led to the downsizing of hospital care services. These trends strongly influen...

OBJECTIVE Teachers' job satisfaction is one of the key factors in institutional dynamics and is generally considered to be the primary variable by which the effectiveness of an organization's human resource is evaluated. The objectives of this study were to assess the level of job satisfaction among university teachers and to clarify the associated factors. METHOD A cross-sectional study was ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess both the direct and indirect effects (i.e., interacting with various job demands) of skill discretion on various psychological outcomes (i.e., emotional exhaustion, intention to leave, affective well-being, and job satisfaction). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected by a self-reported questionnaire in 3 hospitals in Italy. The sample c...

objectives: the present research aims to prepare an iranian police job satisfaction inventory (ipjsi) by using confirmative factor analysis as well as to evaluate the validity and reliability of it. method: a group consisting of 2933 iranian police employees chosen by stratified random sampling method from a number of police departments throughout the country completed the ipjs inventories. val...