Job satisfaction of nurses in S university hospital was investigated using STAMPS Job Satisfaction Scale, because the operating unit has the lowest (75%) retention rate, even though the hospital has high (92%) retention rate. As a result, the followings became apparent.
1) It was recognized that operating unit gets the worst points for all factors of Job Satisfaction Scale. This shows that low job satisfaction related to low retention.
2) The more specific units, like obstetrics, ICU, and other specialized units get higher JS points.
3) The relation between age and job satisfaction shows "U pattern" having a depression in the 25-36 year old age group.
4) Nurse's perception of rotated placement had lower JS points in those groups characterized as having "unwilling rotation", "inappropreate assignment" and "desiring new placement". Especially, "inappropreate assignment" group makes JS point lower for almost all factors.
5) Both job position and motivation of job choice showed a correlation with job satisfaction as demonstrated by JS points.

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Preoperative shaving of skin hair has customarily accepted as a routine preoperative nursing preparation. In this study, shaving brushes which were used at surgical ward in the hospital and new brushes were prepared as experimental materials. Biological contamination of these brushes was investigated with bacterial culture on blood agar and other bacteriological discriminating methods. On the other hand, disinfection effect of the brush with antiseptic solution (0.1% of Benzalkonium chloride, 0.2% of Alkyldiaminoethylglycine hydrochloride, 0.5% of Chlorhexidine gluconate and 70% of Ethanol) was examined and biological contamination in the surface of lathered skin with the brush was also evaluated.
The results were as follows;
1. In case of used brush in surgical ward, various bacteria were found in 85.2%. Positive percentage of bacteria was higher in wet brush than that of dry one.
2. Distinguished bacteria were Staphyloccocus aureus, Staphylo. non-aureus, Genus Bacillus, Genus Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. non-aeruginosa, E. coli, Genus Enterobacter, Genus Citrobacter and Genus Serratia.
3. In case of new brush, distinguished bacteria were few but positive rate of the bacteria was significantly increased by its used number of times and days.
4. The colony number of bacterium from brush decreased significantly by disinfection, but it increased again when brush was dried after disinfection.
5. In the surface of skin lathered with the used brush, colony number of bacterium significantly increased than that of before lathering and lathered with new brush.

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