Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Nurses during the Covid-19 Pandemic at Kwaingga Regional General Hospital, Keerom Regency

Abstract

Work satisfaction is a person's emotional response to the job that he is doing, where each individual has a different measure of satisfaction. Everyone is motivated to satisfy certain needs, from basic life necessities to psychological needs. Everyone seeks high needs when lower needs are predominantly met. It is hoped that nurses' job satisfaction will be able to generate love for the nurses and nurses at work. This study aims to determine the factors that affect the job satisfaction of nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic at Kwaingga Hospital, Keerom Regency. This type of research is quantitative analytic with a cross sectional study design. This research was conducted in Kwaingga General Hospital, Keerom Regency from January to February 2021. The population of this study were all 74 nurses in Kwaingga Hospital, Keerom Regency. The sample of this research is using the total sampling technique. The data were obtained using a questionnaire and analyzed using the chi square test.

The results shows that the factors that influenced the job satisfaction of nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic at Kwaingga Hospital were work motivation (p-value = 0.003 <0.05; RP = 33.00 (95% CI: 3,919 - 277,887)), while the work environment (p-value = 0.150> 0.05), and the role of the manager (p-value = 1,000> 0.05) had no significant effect on job satisfaction for nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic at Kwaingga Hospital, Keerom Regency.