G/Kidan BerhaneAyalew Emiru2018-07-062023-11-062018-07-062023-11-062016-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6985Back ground: nursing is one of the stressful jobs in health sector. Job satisfaction is an essential elementfor the maintenance of the workforce of any organization. However, developments of coping strategiesdemand a clear understanding of workplace variables that either motivates nurses to remain employed orlead them to leave their current jobs. However, there is a scare of data about this in Ethiopia spatial in thestudy area. Objective: - The aim of the study was to assess factors influencing job satisfaction and intention to leaveamong nurses in governmental health facilities in Bahir Dar administrative city, North West Ethiopia,2016. Methods: - An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among nurses working ingovernmental health facilities in Bahir Dar with systematic random sampling technique to fulfill the mainobjective of this study. Data was collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and enteredinto Epi data version 3.1 and then exported, cleaned & analyzed using Statistical Package for SocialScience (SPSS) version 21. And also descriptive analysis frequency and percentile were used to presentresults. To determine association between nominal variables such as socio-demographic variables and nurses‘ level of satisfaction bivariate and multiple logistic regression were computed. Result: - nurses overall level job satisfaction and intention to leave the job were 43.6% and 60.9%respectively. The regression analysis showed that achievement, advancement, recognition at work, workingsecurity, working condition, andorganization policywere significantly associated with the overallsatisfaction and intention to leave (p<=0.05). Conclusion: majority of the participants had low level of satisfaction and high level of intention to leave.Different factors affect job satisfaction and intention to leave such as achievement, advancement,recognition at work, organization policy, working condition and working security. Key words:-jobsatisfaction, motivation, hygiene, nursing profession, intentiontoVIIleave.enJob satisfaction,Motivation Hygiene USNursing profession Intention to VII leaveThesis