Relational and Organisational Factors Relating to Job Satisfaction Among Critical Care Nurses

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Background The global nursing shortage poses significant challenges to healthcare systems. In high‐stakes environments such as intensive care units (ICUs), job satisfaction is a key determinant of nurse turnover. Aim This study aimed to identify relational and organisational factors that influence job satisfaction among ICU nurses, as these factors remain underexplored in this context. Study Design A cross‐sectional, correlational study used survey data collected from ICU nurses across 21 hospitals in Korea. Surveys on situation monitoring, collegial nurse–physician relationships and leader identification were collected as relational factors, and safety climate and workplace safety systems were investigated as organisational factors. Pearson correlations and multiple linear regression analyses were employed to investigate the relationship between the factors and job satisfaction. Results This study included 200 ICU nurses. Pearson correlation analyses showed that all relational and organisational factors were significantly positively associated with job satisfaction. In multiple regression analyses adjusting for years of experience, leader identification showed the strongest positive association with job satisfaction ( β = 0.328, p < 0.001), followed by safety climate ( β = 0.160, p = 0.041), workplace safety systems ( β = 0.153, p = 0.023) and collegial nurse–physician relationship ( β = 0.139, p = 0.033). Situation monitoring was not significantly associated with job satisf

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Enfermagem

Ano

2026

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Inglês

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CC BY

DOI

10.1111/nicc.70388

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LIM, Arum; LEE, Seung Eun. Relational and Organisational Factors Relating to Job Satisfaction Among Critical Care Nurses. Nursing in Critical Care, v. 31, n. 2, 2026. DOI: 10.1111/nicc.70388.