The impact of in-service training of health workers on professional satisfaction

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact in-service training of health workers on their professional satisfaction. The population of the study is consisted of the medical staff working in the hospitals belonging to Public Hospitals Union located in the European side of Istanbul. In this study, it has been studied with 384 health in order to obtain the reliability. The questionnaire which was used as data collection tool is composed of three sections: The first section contains the questions about demographic chracteristics while the second section is consisted of the questions about the perception of in-service training finally, the third section includes the questions devoted to questions about the professional satisfaction. Data analysis in the study have been made with SPSS 16 package program furthermore, in the study data analysis frequency, percentage, descriptive statistics, t test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test were applied. According to the research results, in-service training and the direction of the relationship between professional satisfaction is positive. Both professionaly satisfying and significant relationships between the subscales of the scale there is a positive relationship inservice training. The perception of inservice training as it increases the perception of professional satisfaction increases.