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Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, Professor University of Iceland, Faculty of Nursing Eirberg, Eiriksgata 34, 101 Reykjavik, IS [email protected] THE IMPACT OF NURSING EDUCATION AND JOB SATISFACTION ON NURSE'S PERCEPTIOIN OF THEIR FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE SKILLS Introduction: Clinical guidelines are increasingly recommending active family involvement. Therefore, advancing the practice of family nursing in health care services is needed. The purpose of the study was to evaluate family nursing practice skills among nurses at a National Hospital in Iceland and the relationship between job satisfaction following an implementation of a Family System Nursing (FSN) hospital training educational program (ETI-program). Methods: Participants were 440 nurses. Scores for the characteristics of job demands and job control were created to categorize participants into four job types. These four job types are high strain (high demand, low control), passive (low demand, low control), low strain (low demand, high control), and active (high demand, high control). Results: The nurses who had taken the ETI-program reported significantly higher practice appraisal on the Family Nursing Practice scale. The nurses who perceived them selfs to be active also preceived theim selfs to be significantly better in practicing FSN than the nurses who perceived theim selfs to be passive or to be the low strain job type. Further, the nurses who had taken the ETI-program and characterized their job to be of low strain evaluated their overall job satsifaction to be significantly higher than the nurses who had taken the ETI-program but carasterized theyr job to be high strain or to be passive. Conclusion: Facilitating nurses' autonomy and control over their own work, through hospital training such as the ETI-program, might in the long run, have an impact on nurse's satisfaction with their job. Keywords: Job demand and Job control, Level of education, Family nursing Congress Topics: Connecting, Sharing and Learning in Nursing 25 |