The need for intensive care services and high educated, trained intensive care nurses professionals has grown substantially. These factors
have been fundamentals for the proper hospital functioning. Demographic changes mainly ageing of the population as well as medicaltechnologic
progress, cause that amount of intensive care patients seems to increase progressively each year. The national and global
nursing shortage have been very important issues of health policy. Changes in work environment as well as wages reduction and uncertain
career in nursing profession have been one of the main reason of job migration. Nursing profession is one of the most difficult and responsible.
Workload and fatigue among intensive care nurses have been persistent problems associate with job satisfaction. To prevent nursing
exodus many countries have aspired to create a positive work environments. These elements have been associated with Magnet Hospitals.
This paper provides a critical review of nursing workload and job satisfaction problem among intensive care nurses. It contains a review of
Polish and foreign bibliography on such issues as workload, job satisfaction and Magnet Hospital attributes.
Nursing Topics 2012; 20 (4): 529–534