Introduction and Objective: The most important element of any organization is a human resource interested in their job. Therefore, investigating and introducing ways to create greater job satisfaction and increase efficiency are considered basic priorities in various organizations. Given that intensive care unit nurses work in environments where life and death and ensuring the health of patients are among the most important issues. Therefore, job satisfaction can help in the health of themselves and their patients. Given the importance of the aforementioned issue, this study was conducted with the aim of investigating the level of job satisfaction in nurses working in the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 intensive care units of educational and medical centers in Khorramabad.
Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytical cohort study. The study population was all nurses working in the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 intensive care units of the educational and medical centers of Khorramabad city, and the sampling was done by counting the whole number and the sample size was 102 people. The Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale was used as the research tool. Descriptive and inferential statistics from SPSS version 25 software were used to analyze the data.
Findings: The results of the study showed that 82.4% of the samples were female, the largest age group was 26-30 years old, 83.3% had a bachelor's degree. 51.97% of this number were single, 47.05% were married, and 1 person was divorced. In terms of job satisfaction, nurses in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 intensive care units had poor satisfaction levels, 47% and 49%, respectively, with both groups having poor job satisfaction, and no statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in this regard (P<0.17).
Conclusion: The results of the study showed that job satisfaction among nurses working in intensive care units is low and that the coronavirus did not have a significant effect on this satisfaction.