Correlation between job satisfaction and the quality of care provided by nursing staff to patients: validation of instruments for Ecuador

Abstract

Introduction: Job satisfaction is understood as the feelings and emotions that a person
has towards their job. Satisfaction can also be defined as the attitude towards both
internal and external stimuli that a person can receive, which makes them feel fulfilled
and fulfilled. satisfied in their position or place of employment. Objective: Determine
the validity, relevance and reliability of the Font Roja and CUCACE instruments for
Ecuador, which will allow us to confirm whether there is a relationship between job
satisfaction and the quality of care provided by nursing staff to patients. Method: This
is a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational pilot study. The sample is
of a probabilistic type that includes the nursing staff who work at the Dr. León Becerra
Camacho Hospital, which corresponds to 15 nurses and more of them, 26 patients
hospitalized for more than two days are included in the study, during the month of
February, a non-probabilistic sampling is obtained, meeting inclusion and exclusion
criteria. The technique used is the survey, validated instruments, which will measure job
satisfaction and quality of care. Results: For the Font Roja questionnaire, validity is
reported subject to expert judgment validated with an average score of relevance 89,
validity of 90 and coherence 89. Equivalent to 89.33. It is determined to be reliable with
a Cronbach's alpha of 0.82. And for the CUCACE questionnaire, a validity of 90.31 is
reported as valid and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.78 as acceptable. Conclusions: The
validity and reliability of the instruments according to expert judgments in Ecuador, and
Cronbach's alpha, is acceptable for the selected context and managed to meet the
objectives proposed for this research according to the pilot study carried out.