Ewa Wilczek-Rużyczka
The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Cracow University, Poland
Title: Determining the effect of stress and job burnout on life satisfaction of nursing staff
Biography
Biography: Ewa Wilczek-Rużyczka
Abstract
Introduction & Objective: In nursing profession commitment, concern for the welfare of the patients, high sense of responsibility for the life and health of another person causes an excessive both psychological and physical burden, which in many cases lead to broadly defined stress and in consequence to burnout syndrome. The objective is to study the analysis of burnout, stress and life satisfaction and demonstrating the relationship between these variables in the group of surgical and psychiatric nurses.
Method: The research included 200 nurses. Research tools: Occupational burnout-Maslach Burnout Inventory, stress-the Stevan Hobfoll's Self-Assessment Questionnaire to measure stress, life satisfaction-Satisfaction with Life Scale, questionnaire of socio-demographic data.
Results: Stress and occupational burnout show to have an impact on life satisfaction of surgical nurses. Only some of the demographic variables demonstrate a relationship with the occurrence of burnout syndrome and stress, but they do not show a significant linkage to life satisfaction of the surveyed nurses. The lowered sense of personal achievement corresponds to higher life satisfaction among the participants of the study. In the context of work, stress plays a role of a mediator in the relationship between the life satisfaction and the second dimension of occupational burnout-depersonalization.
Conclusion: The obtained results clearly indicate that some action needs to be taken in order to prevent professional burnout. It is therefore sensible to start action already at university and include the subject of occupational burnout, its causes and ways of coping with it in the curriculum.