Role efficacy and job satisfaction of hospital nurses

Abstract

One concern of healthcare professionals today is the high turnover rate of hospital nursing staff. This article discusses role efficacy and its relation to job satisfaction of hospital nurses. It describes a role-efficacy model and analyzes nurses' perceptions of feedback from the job itself, nursing supervisors, physicians, and hospital administrators. The impact of role efficacy and job satisfaction on improved recruitment and retention of nurses and the role of staff development in the improvement process is explained.