Nurses' job satisfaction in the last ten years with a systematic meta-analysis and review approach

The present study is a meta-analytical study conducted in the area of ​​job satisfaction of nurses in the country through ten years ago. In this research, a comprehensive picture of this area is presented at the national level, which can be viewed by the neglected sides, and help to develop the concept in country.

The research method is qualitative, a kind of meta-analysis. The statistical population includes 3950 articles that 3853 articles were removed in the process of reviewing  and finally 97 articles were selected to study the first question of the research and 20 articles were selected as relevant sources as a statistical sample.

 The most researches in about job satisfaction of nurses were done in 2912, 2014 and 2018 in the region. The most commonly questionnaire used is the JDI questionnaire. Investigation and measurement of nurseschr('39') job satisfaction, factors affecting job satisfaction, individual and organizational ethics, leadership method of nurses and managers and intelligence have been paid more attention in researches.
In the 20 articles reviewed, the mean and standard deviation of job satisfaction  were obtained 2.833±0.008 A large heterogeneity was observed in the results of the studies, which after examining the suspected factors, it was found that job satisfaction is inversely related to the sample size, research year and average service history and is directly related to the average age.

The results of the present study showed that despite the many researches that have been done in the field of nursing job satisfaction in the last decade, appropriate policies have not been adopted to increase their job satisfaction. Therefore, it is necessary for managers and relevant officials in this field to identify the main reason of job dissatisfaction of nurses in their centers and take appropriate measuements in order to eliminate and empower them.