Evaluation of factors affecting job motivation of nurses and a case study

This study was planned and conducted with the aim of the factors that targeted the motivation of the nurses working in surgical departments. The job satisfaction and burnout levels of the nurses working in the field of surgery were analyzed together with the sociodemographic table and the aim of the effect of job nurses and burnout levels on occupational nurses was aimed. A sample of 236 nurses working in Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine Hospital was taken as a sample and questionnaires were applied by face to face questionnaire method. "Sociodemographic Information Form", "Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale" and "Maslach Burnout Scale top were collected. PASW® Statistics 18 statistical package program was used for the collected analysis. Planning on burnout; It was found that males were more consumed, burnout decreased as age increased, graduate graduates consumed more, shift workers and nationals who worked more worked more (p <0,05). Planning for job satisfaction; age, years of the profession and functional area, while extended the age, undergraduate graduates had higher job satisfaction, more working in the nationires were found to have higher job satisfaction (p <0,05). As a result, the findings were obtained with the burnout subscales and total scores of nurses working in the surgical field, and we examined the differences of job satisfaction subscales and total scores according to sociodemographic characteristics. Key words: Nurse, Surgical Nurse, Job Satisfaction, Burnout