The Literature Review of the Japanese Nurses' Job Satisfaction Research Which the Stamps-Ozaki Scale of the Past Fifteen Years Was Used for
2004 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 43-57
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2004 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 43-57
The purpose of this study is to investigate of Japanese nurses' job satisfaction and to furnish the results and subjects of this research. As for the method, literature from 1988 until August 2003 was looked up on the Japan Medical Abstracts Society's Web edition using the key words "job satisfaction" and "nursing". The "Stamps-Ozaki scale" was used for as the method of research on the 96 pieces of writing targeted. These results were analyzed ; a content code drawn up, and then classified and categorized using the KJ method. The study yielded the following findings :
1. Content was classified in 5 categories : "the degree of job satisfaction", "factors which influence the degree of job satisfaction", "comparison in the hospital or nursing unit", "the relationship of the degree of job satisfaction with other scales investigated in the study" and "a study of the degree of job satisfaction score as an evaluation index for improvement".
2. The total job satisfaction scores were 164.3 ± 25.8 points, an average of 55.5 % of the top possible score.
3. The job satisfaction score was high for such items as "interaction among nurses" and "professional status" and low for such items as "the doctor-nurse relationship", "pay" and "task requirements".
4. The factors which influenced the job satisfaction score are "years of clinical experience", "age", "job position", "rotation based on preferences", "job reshuffling based on preferences", "retention", "individual sense of aptitude to the nursing unit" and "the hospital or nursing unit's characteristics".
5. For several pieces of writing, there were problems with using "Stamps-Ozaki scale" and with the analysis. Accordingly, it became clear that the research results were not entirely accumulated.
6. In future, the subjects of the Japanese nurses' job satisfaction research is to use "Stamps-Ozaki scale" in the way that a supplementary examination is possible to accumulate a research result, to reexamine of the result of research. At the same time, it is important to examine "Stamps-Ozaki scale" itself and to investigate the structure of Japanese nurses' job satisfaction as factor searching studies.
