The effect of working in an infection isolation room on hospital nurses' job satisfaction.

Aims: To examine how the nature of working in a carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection isolation room affects nurses' job performance and job satisfaction.

Background: Job satisfaction is under intensive research as a factor in the retention of nursing staff.

Methods: In a cross-sectional design study, a convenience sample of 87 registered nurses who had worked in carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolation rooms in a tertiary medical centre in Israel answered a self-administered questionnaire.