G/Kidan, Berhane (Assistant Professor)Ayalew, 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 element for the maintenance of the workforce of any organization. However, developments of coping strategies demand a clear understanding of workplace variables that either motivates nurses to remain employed or lead them to leave their current jobs. However, there is a scare of data about this in Ethiopia spatial in the study area. Objective: - The aim of the study was to assess factors influencing job satisfaction and intention to leave among 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 in governmental health facilities in Bahir Dar with systematic random sampling technique to fulfill the main objective of this study. Data was collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and entered into Epi data version 3.1 and then exported, cleaned & analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. And also descriptive analysis frequency and percentile were used to present results. 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, working security, working condition, and organization policy were significantly associated with the overall satisfaction 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: -job satisfaction, motivation, hygiene, nursing profession, intention to VII leave.enJob satisfaction,MotivationHygieneNursing professionIntention to VII leaveThesis