Job Satisfaction and Occupational Stress among Government and Private Hospital Nurses during Pandemic

Abstract

A study is conducted to study the level of job satisfaction and occupational stress among government and private hospital nurses during pandemic. A purposive sample of 100 (50 Government hospital nurses and 50 Private hospital nurses) is selected for the study. Job satisfaction scale (Dr. Amar Singh & Dr. T.R. Sharma,1986), Occupational stress Index (Dr. A.K. Srivastava and Dr. A. P. Singh) are used to collect the data. The findings of the study indicated that there is a significant difference in the level of Job Satisfaction among Government and Private Hospital Nurses. There is no significant difference in the level of Occupational Stress among Government and Private Hospital Nurses. There is a significant negative relationship between Job satisfaction and Occupational stress among Government and Private hospital nurses as occupational stress increases the level of job satisfaction decreases and vice versa.