Analysis of nurses‘, working at a Public institution and Private Family Health Supervision Centres, work extent and work motivation

Topic aims: to analyse and compare decisive factors of community nurses‘, working at Public Institution Kauno Šilainių polyclinic and private Family Health Supervision centres, work extent and motivation. Topic objectives: 1. Compare work extent in the environment of the nurses, working at PI Kauno Šilainių polyclinic and private Family Health Supervision centres. 2. Compare main factors, that influence work motivation on community nurses, working at PI Kauno Šilainių polyclinic and private Family Health Supervision centres: job satisfaction, role of self-realization and career opportunities. Research thesis: work extent and work motivation is different between community nurses, working at Public Institution Kauno Šilainių polyclinic, and those, working at private Family Health Supervision centres. Research methods: the study was carried out using an anonymous questionnaire, January, 2010 at Public Institution Kauno Šilainių polyclinic and at private Family Health Supervision centres, such as Vita Longa, Racevičiaus Family health supervision centre, Sargėnų Family health supervision centre and Šilainių Family health supervision centre. The study object: community nurses working in the environment. 32 community nurses, working at Public Institution Kauno Šilainių polyclinic, and 31 community nurses, working at private family health supervision centres, were surveyed. First part of the questionnaire was composed of demograpgic index questions about the respondents‘ age, total work record, education and position. The second part included questions reflexing community nurses‘ motivation, faxtors increasing motivation and factors provoking job dissatisfaction. Moreover, questions to clear out if community nurses are satisfied with their work were presented, and what influence it has on the nurses‘self-realization motivation. The third part of the questionnaire consisted of questions about the community nurses‘ work extent in the environment: how many patients, who need intensive care, they have in the environment, what the distances in the environment are, how long it takes the nurses to get to the patients and how many patients a nurse can visit per day. The received data was processed using programme ‚SPSS 15,0‘. Conclusions: to most nurses their job is the only means of subsistence, therefore, their dissatisfaction is caused not by hard work or dissatisfied patients, but by inadequate wages. Thus, career and self-realization are of no importance to the motivation of community nurses. Only after financial needs of the community nurses are satisfied, career and self-realization factors might become important. Although, work extent to all the nurses is far too great, community nurses keep seeing their patients at weekends, on holidays, and sometimes visit them even several times a day. This is the best proof of the nurses‘ devotion to their work and patients