Annotated Bibliography on Job Satisfaction and Work Environment among Nursing Professionals

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Goh, Y. S., & Lopez, V. (2016). Job satisfaction, work environment and intention to
leave among migrant nurses working in a publicly funded tertiary hospital. Journal of
nursing management, 24(7), 893-901. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12395
The primary aim of this research was to explore the job satisfaction level among
migrant nursing professional that are currently working in the multicultural environment.
Besides, the researchers also aimed to understand the connection between maximum job
satisfaction and the environment of the healthcare setting so that the reason of majority of
migrant nurse’s intention to leave the organization could be determined.
The researchers conducted cross-sectional study within the timeline of June and
December 2012 and in the process migrant nursing professionals with a year of experience and
registered with the Singapore Nursing Board were selected randomly. 600 selected nursing
professional (within that 30% were non-responsive) were assessed depending on three aspects
namely the demographic sheet, practice environment scale–nursing work index–revised and
the Job satisfaction associated questionnaire. After conducting the research in was found that
migratory nurses were moderately satisfied with their work and it was also found that lower
satisfaction levels were associated with the inefficient work environment. However, the job
satisfaction level was not the primary reason for the intention of leave among migratory nurses
and the intention of leave was primarily because of efficiency of nursing professionals whereas,
the second reason of the ineffective working environment.
The future implication of this research would be incorporation of these information in
the recruitment policies of healthcare facilities so that applicants and their concerns could be
easily understood. Migration nurses should be provided with counseling sessions so that

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intention of leave could be eliminated and migration nurses will be provided with authority so
that they can contribute in determining effective working environment.
Leone, C., Bruyneel, L., Anderson, J. E., Murrells, T., Dussault, G., de Jesus, É.
H., ... & Rafferty, A. M. (2015). Work environment issues and intention-to-leave in
Portuguese nurses: a cross-sectional study. Health Policy, 119(12), 1584-1592.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.09.006
This cross sectional study was conducted to determine the quality working environment,
workload and the effect of these on the intention of leave among Portuguese nursing
professionals. The research further aimed to continue the findings of 12 country registered
nurse forecasting so that reason of increased workload and associated patients mortality and
healthcare professionals resignations could be identified.
This research continued the previous research in which cross sectional study was
conducted to understand the connection between all these factors and then collected data from
October 2013 and April 2014. In the study, total 2235 nursing professionals selected from 144
nursing units in 38 Portuguese hospital and total 76.9% responses were collected. The findings
were collected using several instruments such as intention to leave, the feature of the healthcare
facilities in retaining healthcare professionals. The findings indicated that 40% of the female
nursing professionals were dissatisfied to the healthcare facility and were intended to leave the
job. Further, the 91% of nursing professionals said that healthcare facility did not offered then
proper promotions and 87% lacked the career development scope. However, the rate of intention
to leave were higher in nursing professionals that acquired specialized nursing skills than non-