The effects of job characteristics and individual characteristics on job satisfaction and burnout in community nursing Original Research Article

The aim of this article is to describe job satisfaction and burnout among two categories of community-based nurses (N = 402) in the Netherlands taking account of job and individual characteristics. Results show that these nurses are moderately satisfied with their jobs and the effects of burnout are average. Further, community nurses are less satisfied and have experienced burnout to a greater extent than community nurse auxiliaries. Both job characteristics and individual characteristics are related to job satisfaction and burnout. However, job satisfaction is affected to a greater extent by job characteristics nursing and consequently affect job satisfaction and burnout. These changes give opportunities for making their work more enjoyable, especially to community nurses. It is hypothesized on the results in this study, that these changes at work will mainly have consequences for job satisfaction. If organizations want to decrease feelings of burnout it is more effective to pay attention to supervisory support, peer relationships and individual trainingprogrammes instead of changing the work-content. The results of this study may be helpful in coping with the changes in community nursing.