• Enfermería intensiva · Jul 2013

    Observational Study

    [Work setting, satisfaction and burnout of the nurses in critical care units and hospitalization units. RN4CAST-Spain project].

    • C Fuentelsaz-Gallego, T Moreno-Casbas, T Gómez-García, E González-María, and Consorcio RN4CAST-España.
    • Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España. Electronic address: cfuentelsaz@vhebron.net.
    • Enferm Intensiva. 2013 Jul 1;24(3):104-12.

    ObjectiveTo know if there are differences between the critical care units and the medical-surgical care units regarding the perception of the nurses working in National Health System hospitals about their work environment, burnout level and job satisfaction.MethodA cross-sectional study was conducted with 6,417 nurses from the medical-surgical care units and with 1,122 nurses from critical care units of 59 Spanish hospitals with more than 150 beds. Socio-demographic, job satisfaction, perception of work environment (Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index [PES-NWI questionnaire]) and burnout measured with the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) data were collected.ResultsThe PES-NWI showed differences in 4 out of its 5 factors. It showed better values in medical-surgical units in all the factors, except for Staffing and resource adequacy (P<.001), where critical care units showed a mean level of agreement of 2.41 versus 2.19 for the medical-surgical units. Regarding burnout, this was higher in the medical-surgical care units (P=.039) where 23% (952) of the nurses had high levels. Job satisfaction was lower in the critical care units (P=.044) with 70% (578) of nurses being very or strongly satisfied.ConclusionsThe opinion of the nurses, working in critical care units about their hospital is unfavorable. They showed lower levels of burnout than those working in medical-surgical units.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier España, S.L. y SEEIUC. All rights reserved.

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