Exploration of Nurse's Attributes Which Relate to Both Goal Attainment and Satisfaction Based on King's Theory of Goal Attainment

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to explore nurse's attributes which relate with both goal attainment and satisfaction. Three instruments were used. They were Scale of Nurse's Performance of Goal Attainment, Japanese Version of Nursing Job Satisfaction Scale, and Questionnaire for Attributes. Subjects were 1180 nurses belonging to 47 general hospitals in Japan which were selected randomly. Subject returned the completed instruments by mail using self addressed envelope. There were 655 responses (response rate 55.5%) and valid response were 519. In data analysis, correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA were used. The result indicated that there were 16 variables which relate with both goal attainment and satisfactions. The 16 variables were age, income, responsibility for family, experience of learning in continuing education, view of the value for nursing, degree of the perception of the value for nursing, motivation of career choice as nurse, reason of working as nurse, intent of career development as nurse, intent to continue working at the present hospital, having role model, years of clinical experience, experience as instructor of clinical nursing practicum, satisfaction with the ward, perception of the own aptitude to the ward, and shift system of working. Four hypothesis were recommended to further research through the discussion on the results.