The knowledge and satisfaction of nurses about pay for performance (Qasedak plan) and its relationship with the quality of nursing care

Satisfaction with the rights and benefits received and how it is distributed is one of the most important and most important dimensions of job satisfaction; in a way that has many effects on organization in the health system, quantity and quality. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and satisfaction of nurses about performance based payment (Qasedak plan) and its relationship with the quality of nursing care in hospitals affiliated to Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in 2018. Material & Methods: The present study was a descriptive cross-sectional correlation study that was performed on 150 nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Bushehr University of Medical Sciences through cluster sampling with proportional allocation. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire on the validity and reliability of nurses' knowledge and satisfaction from performance-based payment (Alpha Cronbach 0.862) and a valid and reliable questionnaire on nursing care quality (Alpha Cronbach 0.94) of Rezaei et al. (2013), completed by nurses. Using SPSS software version 16, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and frequency) and test (Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression model) and at the significance level of 0.05 were analyzed. Contributing nurses had performance-based payouts, high awareness (mean 58.55), and moderate satisfaction (mean 10. 20), and provided high quality nursing care (mean 208.08). There was a significant relationship between the mean score of nursing care quality in all aspects of psychosocial, communicative and physical aspects and nurses' knowledge about performance based payment. In other words, increasing awareness has increased the quality of nursing care. However, there was not a significant relationship between the mean score of nursing care quality and nurses' satisfaction with performance based payment (p> 0.05). Regarding the average satisfaction of performance-based payment method, nurses provided high-quality nursing care to patients, which could be due to the influence of spiritual factors and the high status of professional ethics in the performance of nurses despite the inadequacy of the salary and benefits.