Impact of Emergency Clinical Work Environment on Nurses’ Satisfaction and Intension to Leave

Background: Health care environment is a scene where people fulfill certain
responsibilities and their satisfaction, communication, collaboration,
leadership style, and intention to leave affected positively or negatively. Aim:
This study aimed to evaluate the work environment and detect its effect on
nurses' job satisfaction and their intension to leave: design: a Descriptive
correlational design was applied. Sample& setting: a convenient sample of
staff nurses include (n=100 staff nurse) who deliver direct nursing care in a
selected emergency university hospital. Tools: To achieve the aim of the
current study three adapted questionnaires were used to collect the pertinent
data. Results: The main discoveries of this study exhibited that the majority
of the study sample agrees that their working environment positively
structured to empower them. Also, the study revealed that 80% of the studied
sample planned to be with their current employment one year and not
intended to leave the hospital. Conclusion: Based on this outcomes, the
study clinched that, there was a significant relationship between work
environment and employee satisfaction while there was no a significant
relationship between work environment and their intention to leave.
Recommendations: use a larger sample of hospitals including teaching and
private sectors with different accreditation statuses to provide representative
workforce. Finally make your staff feel valued is one of the leading motives
that any employee complain when they left their positions.