MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS AMONG NURSING STAFF IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS-A SURVEY

Abstract

Objective: To identify the factors influencing Nurse’s Work Motivation

Study Design: Cross Sectional Study.

Place and Duration of study: The study was carried out at Department of nursing at PNS Shifa Hospital and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi, January 2021 to July 2021.

Material and Methods: After the approval of institutional review board and informed consent from study participants, a total of 230 nursing staff, with at least two year of working experience were interviewed by using simple random sampling technique, while nurses on ad hoc or contract basis and those who didn’t give written consent were excluded from study. The data was collected with the help of available literature from tertiary care hospitals of Karachi through structured pretested and self-administered questionnaire. SPSS version 20.0 was utilized to analyze and interpret the collected data. To calculate demographic variables of the study participants descriptive analysis was performed. For the categorical variables frequencies and percentages were used. Mean and standard deviation was used for continuous variables.

Results: The mean age was 35.07 +7.46 years. The most highlighted motivation type was promotion 207(90%) and salary structures 207(90%) and least was strict or constant hospital supervision94 (41%). The MRS (Aggregated score based on responses) was 1840 with mean 613.3 (SD = 521.0).

Conclusion: Motivational factors include both financial and non-financial and in current study financial incentives, better salary structure, proper performance appraisal system and acknowledgement of nursing job were identified as the important factors of motivation.