The effect of nursing work environment on nurses' attitudes towards productivity

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of nursing work environment and sociodemographic characteristics of nurses on their attitudes towards productivity. This descriptive study was carried out between February 2018 and April 2018 with 435 nurses having been working in six hospitals affiliated to General Secretariat of Amasya for at least six months. A questionnaire consisting of three parts; "Sociodemographic Questionnaire", "Nursing Work Index-The Practice Work Environment Scale" and "Attitude Scale on Productivity" are used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analysis, Kruskal Wallis test, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA (advanced analysis with the Tukey HSD), Pearson correlation analysis were used. While the levels of the participating nurses' attitudes towards productivity were slightly below average (43.87 ± 10.91), their nursing work environment levels were below average (2.31 ± 0.45). While there was no statistically significant correlation between the nurses' attitudes towards productivity scores and the variables such as age group, marital status, education level and length of service in the institution, there was a statistically significant correlation between their attitudes towards productivity scores and the variables such as gender, type of the institution they worked in, position at work, unit they worked in, length of service in profession and unit, type of work schedule, working overtime, workload and being satisfied with the salary. There was a strong, high, significant correlation between the nursing work environment total score and efficiency attitude. (p <.001, r: .64). In conclusion, it was observed that the characteristics of the nursing work environment had positive effects on the participating nurses' attitudes towards productivity. In order to increase nurses' attitudes towards productivity, it is recommended that managers should develop improvemental/developmental strategies to ensure a positive nursing work environment by taking into account the socio-demographic, professional and work environment characteristics of employees. Keywords: Nursing working environment, productivity, attitude