Job satisfaction highlights differences based on departmental experience andtype of hospital. Departmental experience showed a difference between the 1-year-or-less subgroup and their greater-than-1-year counterparts. In terms of the type of hospital, the job satisfaction of nurses in smaller hospitals was higher than those in larger hospitals. A study by Han et al. (2009) found that the job change rate for nurses is highest among those with between 1 and 2 years of tenure. This study found lower job satisfaction among participants who had been working for over 1 year. This suggests the importance of developing strategies to improve the job satisfaction of nurses with less than 1 year of departmental experience and of those working in smaller hospitals.