Relationship between nurse's quality performance and their job satisfaction

Decresead nurses’ job satisfaction is resulted to poorly their performances and hospital acheivement to aims will be unsucessfully.
Aim: The aim was relationship between nurses’ quality performance and their job satisfaction in Birjand hospitals in (2012).
A descriptive-analytic study was conducted on (100) nurses who were worked in hospitals in Birjand city in (2012). For data gathering were used two questionairs that they provided by researcher. For assessing nurses’ performance (31) head nurses were completed this questionair that it had seven domins; responsibility, continuity in learning, application of knowledge and skills, professional ethics, quality of care, self-control and professional participation. Its reliability was (0.86) by test and re- test. Also, nurses’ job satisfactionwas aquestionair with (35) questions in eight domains; satisfaction in job conditions, job security, salary and benefits, reationship with colleagues, supervision, management policies, job situations and work/ life relation. Its reliability was (0.88) by Alpha Cronbach. Data were analyzed using Pearson & Spearman correlation coefficient and one-way ANOVA by SPSS19.
The fidings showed that nurses (75%) had moderate satisfaction to job. And (60%) of them were good in quality performances from head nurses’ viewpoints. Correlation coefficient indicated that there was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction and nurses ‘quality performance (P = 0.03). There was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction with nurses’ quality performances and its components; responsibility, continuity in learning, application of knowledge and skills, professional ethics and quality of care.
It is recommended to nurse managers notice and evaluate others domains in nurses’ quality performance such as professional participation, management and leadership, and their self-control and give feedback to them effectively.