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Background: School nurses play a crucial role in promoting health and well-being among students. In Nepal, the school nursing program in public school started since five years and there is a need for a study on their job satisfaction. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the job satisfaction and its determinants among school nurses in Nepal.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 1011 school nurses working in public schools from all provinces in Nepal. The study utilized Paula L. Stamp's modified Index of Work Satisfaction, assessing six domains: pay, autonomy, task requirements, organizational policy, professional status, and interaction. Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed electronically; bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to find out determinants.
Results: All school nurses were approached, but only 545 (53.9%) participated. Among them 51.7% expressed overall job satisfaction. Among the six domains, the highest job satisfaction was observed in the professional status (85.3%), interaction (72.8%), and task (61.8%) component while the lowest was in the pay (3.7%) component. Logistic regression revealed the significant determinants were working solely as school nurse (0.001), bachelor and above academic qualification (0.031) and family type p= absent in bot "working solely as school nurse (0.001), bachelor and above academic qualification (0.031).
Conclusions: School nurses with minimum bachelor degree, has better job satisfactions. Similarly, the program implementer needs attention to enhance pay for school nurses and allow autonomy in workplace to increase job satisfaction.
背景：学校护士在促进学生健康和福祉方面发挥着至关重要的作用。在尼泊尔，公立学校的学校护理计划从五年前开始实施，有必要对他们的工作满意度进行研究。因此，本研究旨在调查尼泊尔学校护士的工作满意度及其决定因素。方法：对尼泊尔各省1011名公立学校护士进行描述性横断面研究。这项研究使用了Paula L. Stamp的修正工作满意度指数，评估了六个领域：薪酬、自主性、任务要求、组织政策、专业地位和互动。通过电子分发的问卷收集数据；使用双变量和多变量逻辑回归来找出决定因素。结果：对所有学校护士进行了接触，但仅有545人（53.9%）参与。其中51.7%的人对工作总体满意。在六个领域中，职业地位（85.3%）、互动（72.8%）和任务（61.8%）部分的工作满意度最高，而薪酬（3.7%）部分的工作满意度最低。Logistic回归分析显示，单纯学校护士（0.001）、本科及以上学历（0.031）和家庭类型p=不存在的显著决定因素是单纯学校护士（0.001）、本科及以上学历（0.031）。结论：本科学历最低的学校护士工作满意度较高。同样，项目执行者需要注意提高学校护士的薪酬，并允许工作场所的自主权，以提高工作满意度。
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