title: Assesment of psychosocial work conditions of nurses at selected hospital wards.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Good organisation of work, clear division of responsibilities, support from superiors are factors that positively influence the satisfaction of the profession. The purpose of the work was the assessment of psychosocial working conditions of nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research included 388 nurses working at surgical wards, medical treatment wards, and psychiatric wards. The research method was a diagnostic survey carried out by means of a questionnaire called Psychosocial Work Conditions. The obtained results were statistically analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nearly a half of the nurses considers the requirements at work as moderate, and 36.66% as high. Nurses from medical treatment wards indicate the highest level of requirements. Nurses working at psychiatric wards and in a shift system significantly more often feel the requirements relating to overload and resulting from a conflict of roles. Nurses working in the profession for more than 10 years considerably more often describe the level of behavioural control as high in comparison to those working for a shorter time. Regardless of the character of a ward, nurses most often (44.33%) assess the support from co-workers as average, and 1/5 considered this as low.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicate the correctness of introducing psychosocial training for professionally active nurses.
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rotter
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kemicer-Chmielewska
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipa
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kotwas
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jurczak
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laszczyńska
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karakiewicz
mesh_terms: D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration; D011044:Poland; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*