Factors influencing the motivation of nurses to increase their motivation: Turkish literature review

The purpose of this study is to search the sources of motivation and demotivation of the nurses working in Turkey.This research is an analysis of the literature in Turkish covering the catalogue of thesis of YÖK (Higher Education Council) , ULAKBİM TR index, The Nursing Journal of Florence Nightingale, The Nursing Journal of Ege University, The Journal of Anatolian Nursery and Health Sciences, The Journal of Education and research in Nursery, The Journal of Management of Health and Nursery, The Journal of Academic Research in Nursery, The Journal of Hacettepe Nursery, The electronic journal of The Faculty Of Nursery of Dokuz Eylül University between the years 2010-2017 using motivation and nurse as key words for search criteria in title and summaries. And 21 articles were selected after systematic searching the literature. In the studies searching the wok motivation of nurses, usually the participants were under 25 years, the design type was descriptive and the size vared betwen 80 and 2250, In seven studies, Inventory of Motivation Sources, in two studies Minnesota Work Satisfaction Scale, in four studies, Work Motivation Scale, in one study, The Importance Degree Form of Motivation, in one study, The Survey of Motivation Factors were used as measuring instrument. In some studies, variables sourcing from working conditions,such as (total working period, weekly working period, work type, additional income state, statute, the sufficiency of the required tools and equipment for working environment,organizing social activities for nurses in hospital, were shown as efficient motivators on the work motivation of nurses, on the other hand in some studies, they were shown inefefctive over th emotvation of the nurses even demotivator. Discretion and respect, reward, introduction into profession voluntarily, and loving, organizational justice, work security, social security, appreciation of the management, appreciation of the work done, participation to the decision process, taking initiative, giving importance to the workers, understanding of just discipline, gaining new skills, agoption of the institutional targets,performing the profession by love, sufficincy of knowlegde and experience for work, positive leadership attitude of nurses, satisfaction of communication and work were defined as other efficient factors on the motivation of nurses. Besides,increase in mobbing attitudes in working conditions, decreased the motivation of nurses. Keywords: nurse, work motivation, motivating factors, demotivating factors, literature search,