Job Satisfaction of Nurses in Psychiatric Healthcare Organizations: A case of Mirembe Hospital in Dodoma City, Tanzania

The article’s objective was to determine job satisfaction among mental health nurses at Mirembe Psychiatric hospital. Sample size was 75 out of 92 entire population. Purposive and judgmental sampling procedures were used to obtain respondents. Method of data collection was interview and a questionnaire mainly based on Warr-Cook Wall Job Satisfaction Scale was a tool for data collection. Data were analyzed by frequencies, percentages, means (M), standard deviations (SD) and multiple linear regression on SPSS version 20. Results revealed that respondents were satisfied with few facets of job satisfaction including “co-worker relations”, “immediate superviser” and “job security”. Results further revealed that respondents were dissatisfied with many facets including “freedom to choose methods of work”, opportunities to attend training”, weekly hours of work”, “amount of responsibility given in the job”, “recognition for job done”, “amount of variety in the job”, “adequate availability of quality tools”, “career advancement”, physical working condition”, “remuneration for the job” and their general feeling with the job was dissatisfied. Multiple linear regression results revealed that years of employment (β = 1.480, t = 0.774, p ˃ 0.000) and respondents’ job position ((β =0.390, t = 0.483, p ˃ .000) had no relationship on general feeling of satisfaction with the job among respondents. Based on the results, the article provided recommendations to increase job satisfaction