Abstract

Background and aim: There are a paucity of literature relating to job satisfaction and rates of job dissatisfaction among national Saudi nurses. The main aim of this review was to assess job satisfaction among nurses working in mental health settings within the current literature.

Methods: The database which was be used for this review included the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL®), Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, Ovid Old Medline, Embase Classic+EMBASE (Ovid), The Web of Science (Thomson Reuters).

Conclusion & recommendations: Identifying and improving the factors that affect job satisfaction among mental health nurses in Saudi Arabia could help to maintain the stability of Saudi nurses working in public hospitals and increase the number of Saudi students enrolling in mental health nursing programs in the future.

Keywords:Nurses; Satisfaction; Mental; Health