SEHER ERDOĞAN, EMEL İNAN
Annals of Clinical and Analytical Medicine - 2018;9(4):315-318
Aim: This descriptive study was performed to determine burnout level of nurses working at Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, Pediatrics Clinic. Material and Method: Data were collected from 104 nurses who work in the pediatrics clinic using a sociodemographic form and the;Maslach Burnout Inventory. Results: According to the analysis of the sociodemographic properties of the participating nurses, 75% were female; 81.7% were between 20 and 30 years of age; 65.4% were married; 57.7% were college graduates; 55.8% had an average income level; 10.6% had chronic illnesses; and 23.1% had children. Fifty-nine point six of the nurses had been working at the intensive care unit, 26% at the pediatrics clinic, 7.7% at operating theatre, and 6.7% were managing nurses. The mean scores of the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment subdimensions were 12.87±7.01, 3.04±3.46, and 22.67±4.77, respectively. A comparison of the mean EE (emotional exhaustion) subdimension score by work unit revealed that the intensive care nurses had a significantly lower EE score than the pediatric clinic nurses (p: 0.001; p<0.05). They also had a significantly higher EE score than the operating theatre nurses (p: 0.030; p<0.05). A comparison of the D (depersonalization) subdimension scores that the intensive care nurses had a significantly lower mean D score compared to the medical ward nurses (p: 0.003; p<0.05). A comparison of the mean PA (personal accomplishment) subdimension scores by work unit showed that the managing nurses had a significantly higher mean score than the medical ward nurses (p: 0.011), the intensive care nurses (p: 0.009), and the operating theatre nurses (p: 0.012) (p<0.05). Discussion: Our study revealed that nurses suffer a moderately severe level of burnout, particularly evident in the emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment subdimensions. Burnout among nurses should be prevented, and when it develops, every attempt should be made to treat it.
