Work technology and the needs for achievement and nurturance among nurses

Abstract Critical care nursing units have less routine work technology and provide greater opportunities for nurses to satisfy the need for achievement than do chronic and rehabilitative units. There is no difference between the types of units in opportunities to satisfy the need for nurturance. On units which have non‐routine work technology, nurses with a high need for achievement have greater work satisfaction than nurses with a low need for achievement. On routine work technology units there is no correlation between need for achievement and work satisfaction.