Background: In nursing research, professional autonomy, nurse-physician relationship, or moral distress has been regarded as crucial influencing factors on nurses’ job satisfaction. However, there is little known research about these variables on jo...
Background: In nursing research, professional autonomy, nurse-physician relationship, or moral distress has been regarded as crucial influencing factors on nurses’ job satisfaction. However, there is little known research about these variables on job satisfaction among physician assistant nurses in South Korea.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify the impact of professional autonomy, nurse-physician collaboration and moral distress on job satisfaction among physician assistant nurses in South Korea.
Methods: A descriptive and correlational research was adopted by a convenience sample of 130 physician assistant nurses from five general hospitals in South Korea. Data was collected between August and September in 2017. Data was analyzed by SPSS/WIN 21.0 program for t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Ethical considerations: This study was approved by the Institute Review Board of Hallym University before data collection(HIRB-2017-047).
Results: The level of job satisfaction was positively correlated with professional autonomy(r =.193, p =.028)
and nurse-physician collaboration(r =.343, p <.001). In the final regression model, the adjusted R square was significantly 18.9% of the variance of job satisfaction (F=4.349, p<.001), The nurse-physician collaboration related to cooperativeness (β=.432, p<.001) perceived by physician assistant nurses was significantly an influential factor on the level of job satisfaction among physician assistant nurses.
Conclusion: In hospital settings, nurses and physicians should be required to improve their professional relationship to be more cooperative in order to increase physician assistant nurses` job satisfaction, which can enrich quality of care and enhance patients` outcome.