This research paper explores the quality of work life in private hospitals in Trivandrum. Quality of nursing care is considered as an important aspect in evaluating the quality of health care. The quality of nursing and health care is directly interlinked to levels of job satisfaction among nurses and on the quality of nurse’s work life. The rapidly changing health care environment has had an impact on the nursing work environment, workload and quality of nursing work life. Studies have shown that work environment has an impact on the patient outcomes and nursing work life. For this study the researcher collected the data of 100 respondents. Likert 5 point scale is used for the questionnaire (1 indicates strongly disagree 2. Disagree 3. Neutral 4 Agree. 5 strongly agree.) In this study Quota sampling method is used. Simple percentage method has been used as statistical tools for this analysis.

Keywords: Quality of life; Quality of work life; Nurses; Job satisfaction; Nursing work life; Quality of nursing work life