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OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out to learn what nurses and midwives working in obstetrics and children’s wards think about professional awareness and professional organizations, and also to determine their levels of job satisfaction. METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out in an obstetrics hospital in Istanbul between January 2007 and March 2007. The sample group of the study was composed of 102 nurses and midwives who agreed to participate in the study and who actively work in obstetrics and children’s wards at the time of the study. Personal information forms from the nurses and midwives along with the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire were used for data collection. RESULTS: 34.3% of the participants defined professional awareness as taking ownership of their jobs and 90.2% stated that they do not have any professional awareness. It was found that 35.9% attributed the reason for this to the adverse conditions of the job. Although 92.1% of the nurses who took part in the study deemed professional organizations necessary, only 24.5% of them were members of an professional organizations. Among the suggestions for increasing professional awareness and organizations, offering good introductions to professional organizations and improving work conditions took the first place at 22.7%. After analyzing job satisfaction points, departments worked, educational backgrounds, and the reasons for choosing their jobs in comparison to the reasons for participating in professional organizations, the differences between the groups were found to be statistically significant. CONCLUSION: The knowledge and attitudes of the nurses’ towards professional awareness and professional organizations were not at the desired levels.

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