title: Raising nurses' job satisfaction through patient-oriented perception and organizational citizenship behaviors.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Because nurses deliver care to patients on behalf of hospitals, hospitals have to enhance first-line nurses' patient-oriented perception and spontaneous organizational citizenship behaviors for the sake of higher patient satisfaction and better patient care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to investigate how patient-oriented perception among nurses could affect their organizational citizenship behaviors and job satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  SPSS 12.0 and Amos 7.0 (structural equation modeling) statistical software packages were used for data analysis and processing. Of the 500 questionnaires distributed, 232 valid ones were collected, with a valid response rate of 46.4%.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses' patient-oriented perception has a positive influence on organizational citizenship behaviors (γ11 = .795, p < .05), and their organizational citizenship behaviors (β21 = .681, p < .05) have a positive influence on job satisfaction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses' patient-oriented perception has the most positive influence on interpersonal altruistic behavior but the least positive influence on organizational public welfare behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Information Management, College of Health Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. arthur0660@yahoo.com.tw
authors.forename: Ching Sheng
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Su-Yueh
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yi Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Lan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000533:Altruism; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010465:Perception; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan