CRITICAL CARE NURSE SATISFACTION WITH LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT IN CLINICAL DECISIONS

This research reports the results of a survey of 230 Australian critic al care nurses. The respondents were asked to rate how frequently they were involved in 10 common critical care decisions and their levels o f satisfaction with their involvement for each decision task. It was f ound that level of task satisfaction was positively correlated with le vel of task involvement, thus supporting the hypothesis that nurse tas k decision autonomy is associated with nurse task satisfaction. The pa per argues for the importance of differentiation between task satisfac tion and work satisfaction in research of these issues.