Citation: Serra, N.; Botti, S.; Guillari, A.; Simeone, S.; Latina, R.; Iacorossi, L.; Torreggiani, M.; Guberti, M.; Cicolini, G.; Lupo, R.; et al. Workload, Job Satisfaction and Quality of Nursing Care in Italy: A Systematic Review of Native Language Articles. Healthcare 2023, 11, 2573. https:// doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182573 Academic Editor: Gilbert Ramirez Received: 23 June 2023 Revised: 6 September 2023 Accepted: 14 September 2023 Published: 18 September 2023 Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). healthcare Systematic Review Workload, Job Satisfaction and Quality of Nursing Care in Italy: A Systematic Review of Native Language Articles Nicola Serra 1,† , Stefano Botti 2, * ,† , Assunta Guillari 3,† , Silvio Simeone 4 , Roberto Latina 5 , Laura Iacorossi 6 , Martina Torreggiani 7 , Monica Guberti 7 , Giancarlo Cicolini 8 , Roberto Lupo 9 , Angela Capuano 10 , Gianluca Pucciarelli 11 , Gianpaolo Gargiulo 12 , Marco Tomietto 13 and Teresa Rea 3 1 Biostatistics Unit, Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy; nicola.serra@unina.it 2 Hematology Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS of Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy 3 Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy; assunta.guillari@unina.it (A.G.); teresa.rea@unina.it (T.R.) 4 Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, “Magna Graecia” University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; silvio.simeone@unicz.it 5 Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialities, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy; roberto.latina@unipa.it 6 Nursing Research Unit IFO, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy; laura.iacorossi@gmail.com 7 Research and EBP Unit, Health Professions Department, Azienda USL-IRCCS of Reggio Emilia, 42421 Reggio Emilia, Italy; martina.torreggiani@ausl.re.it (M.T.); monica.guberti@ausl.re.it (M.G.) 8 Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area—(DiMePRe-J), University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70124 Bari, Italy; giancarlo.cicolini@uniba.it 9 San Giuseppe da Copertino Hospital, Local Health Authority, 73043 Copertino, Italy; roberto.lupo@uniba.it 10 Department of Emergency, AORN Santobono-Pausilipon, 80122 Naples, Italy; angelacapuano2016@gmail.com 11 Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; gianluca.pucciarelli@uniroma2.it 12 Hematology and Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Centre, University Federico II of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy; gianpaolo.gargiulo@unina.it 13 Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK; marco.tomietto@northumbria.ac.uk * Correspondence: stefano.botti@ausl.re.it; Tel.: +39-0522296661; Fax: +39-0522295655 † These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: Nursing research is rapidly increasing, yet contributions from numerous countries that may interest the international nursing community are impeded because many research articles are published in authors’ native language and not in English. The objectives of this work were to systematically review papers published in Italian related to job satisfaction and the quality of nursing care, and to discuss their findings in light of the international literature. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method was used. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Indice della Letteretura Italiana di Scienze Infermieristiche (ILISI) databases were consulted for eligible studies published from January 2015 to November 2022. Two hundred sixteen papers were identified, 11 of which were selected for review: 8 on job satisfaction, two on workload issues, and 1 on quality of nursing care. The quality of included studies was assessed through the Effective Public Health Practice Project quality assessment tool (EPHPP). The results of our review were in line with those of international literature, and they can help to fill the knowledge gap on the quality of nursing performance in Italian care settings. In addition, the proposed method can provide further elements of discussion among literature providers and reviewers. Keywords: nursing workload; job satisfaction; quality of care; native language; Italian Healthcare 2023, 11, 2573. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182573 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare