Abstract
The National Health Insurance is based on the principle that all South Africans have a constitutional right to quality health services. However, at present, the nursing profession is in a crisis situation with shortages of nurses, high turnover rates, nurse emigration and with the average age of nurses on the increase. Complaints about the poor quality of care being provided in public hospitals appear regularly in the media. It has been argued that one reason among others for this lack of quality care is due to nurses not having job satisfaction. The study aims to determine the subjective well-being of professional nurses working in general wards in public hospitals in the Nelson Mandela Bay Health District as it relates to social capital. The population for the study is drawn from professional nurses working the general wards of four of the largest public hospitals in the Nelson Mandela Health District. Random sampling will be used to select the participants. A structured self-administered questionnaire will be used to collect the quantitative data for this study with the following existing questionnaires being adapted for the South African situation: Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Workplace Social Capital Questionnaire for Nurses (WSCQ-N). Data collection will take place before the end of August.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Public Health Policies and Practices
KEYWORDS
General Wards, Job Satisfaction, Professional Nurses, Public Hospitals
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