Στάσεις του νοσηλευτικού προσωπικού του Ψυχιατρικού Νοσοκομείου Αττικής για την εργασία του
Attitudes of nursing staff of the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica for their work

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Abstract
The nursing service is a fundamental factor in the health sector and the quality of services affects the efficiency of the system and creates a significant level of satisfaction of service users. The purpose of the study was to evaluate possible differences in factors of nurses attitudes ( autonomy, feedback, task identity, task significance, skill variety, experienced meaningfulness, experienced responsibility, knowledge of results ) regarding parameters for gender, age, marital status, number of children, education level, graduation from another school, years of service, permanence at work, employee category, department working in the hospital, desirable section for work , shift work. The data collected from a sample were 115 nurses of the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica (23 men and 92 women) with a measurement. As measuring instruments were used: 1) questionnaire of demographic elements and 2) Questionnaire «Job Diagnostic Survey» [[Hackman and Oldham (1974), Koustelios] as they were adjusted to fit the needs of the study. The research was conducted between July and August 2008. Their selection is the method of simple random sampling. The results of the survey showed that there were statistically significant differences between the factor "autonomy" concerning the factor "gender", between the factor "feedback", "task significance", " skill variety", "experienced meaningfulness" concerning the factor "marital status", between the factor "task significance" concerning the factor "number of children", between the factor "feedback", "task identity", "skill variety", "experienced meaningfulness", concerning the factor "department working in the hospital". The results of research led to important conclusions about the attitudes of nurses for their work. The nurses of the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica generally neither agree nor disagree on the issue of autonomy in their work, the nurses agree that they receive feedback from their jobs except the immediate and clear information on how well they are doing that appear to disagree. With regard to the task identity workers are neutral, neither agree nor disagree. The employees agree that their work is important .The nurses agree on the variety of skills to work, on the experience of the meaning of work employees agree that their work is significant. Finally, on the experience of responsibility for the outcome of work , and knowledge for the results of work, workers agree on some of their responsibility for the work they perform as well just agree to their knowledge of how effectively they perform their job.