Satisfacción Laboral de Enfermeros de un Servicio de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos y Neonatales

 is is a cross-sectional descriptive study, whose objective is to know the degree of job satisfaction of nurses (graduates and assistants) who work in the pediatric and neonatal CTI of the police hospital of Montevideo, Uruguay. Data collection was carried out in October 2016. Based on the Herzberg theory of the needs (1), which suggests that the real satisfaction of man with his work comes from the fact of enriching his position so that in this way he can develop a greater responsibility and in turn experience a mental growth and psychological, the present investigation was elaborated; taking into account that, as workers, nurses are constantly exposed to various factors that threaten their health and against the mentioned growth and development. For which, through the use of the Font-Roja questionnaire (2) plus the addition of sociodemographic and labor variables, the sociodemographic and labor characteristics of the nurses of the service are described, their degree of satisfaction is determined and the work satisfaction is related with the sociodemographic and labor variables of these. As a result, it was observed that this population shares similar characteristics with the population of nurses in the rest of the country; that the sociodemographic and labor variables studied do not have a statistically signifi cant relationship with the degree of job satisfaction; and that the degree or level of satisfaction is moderately satisfactory, with an average of 82.15 (SD 7.31), on a scale ranging from 24 (minimum degree of satisfaction) to 120 (maximum degree of satisfaction).