Spiritual Job Satisfaction in an Iranian Nursing Context

This article reports the results of a qualitative study that used a deep interview method. The aim was to gather lived experiences of clinical nurses employed at government-funded medical centres regarding the non-materialistic and spiritual aspects of the profession that have had an important impac...

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Authors: Ravari, Ali (Author) ; Vanaki, Zohreh (Author) ; Houmann, Hydarali (Author) ; Kazemnejad, Anooshirvan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-30
Further subjects:B Worship
B spiritual job satisfaction
B factors concerning job satisfaction
B Nurses
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Summary:This article reports the results of a qualitative study that used a deep interview method. The aim was to gather lived experiences of clinical nurses employed at government-funded medical centres regarding the non-materialistic and spiritual aspects of the profession that have had an important impact on their job satisfaction. On analysing the participants' concepts of spiritual satisfaction, the following themes were extracted: spiritually pleasant feelings, patients as celestial gifts, spiritual commitment, spiritual penchant, spiritual rewards, and spiritual dilemmas. Content analysis of the data indicated that nurses who viewed these dimensions of job satisfaction as a significant factor considered nursing as an opportunity to worship God while providing care for patients, and regarded their aim as achieving patients' contentment by providing nursing care compatible with scientific care methods.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0969733008097987