Nurses' professional quality of life and job satisfaction in Jordan.

Background: Professional quality of life has received widespread concern in nursing over the last few years. Nurses with a high professional quality of life enthusiastically approach their work and provide excellent patient care. On the other hand, poor professional quality of life may affect nurses' quality of care, resulting in job dissatisfaction and jeopardizing patient outcomes.

Quality of nursing care: Predictors of patient satisfaction in a national sample.

Aim: To assess patients' satisfaction with the quality of nursing care and the relationship between patients' characteristics and their level of satisfaction.

Design: A descriptive correlational cross-sectional design was used in this study.

Methods: Convenient sampling was utilized to include 1014 inpatients from six hospitals in Jordan: three private hospitals; two governmental hospitals; and one university-affiliated hospital.