Level of Burn Out Among Staff Nurses at the Philippine Heart Center / Dela Cruz, Olivia M.

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This study aimed how demographic profile, leadership satisfaction and hospital work-related factors relate to the level of burnout among staff nurses at Philippine Hearth Center during Fiscal Year, 2014. Specifically, the study identified the profile of the staff nurses in terms of age, sex, area or unit assignment, years of experience in the hospital and salary level; the staff nurses' level of satisfaction towards superiors' leadership; the level of agreement on following hospital work-related factors be described in terms of nurses' perceived level of job demand, decision control, job security, supervisor support and co-worker support; the level of burnout among staff nurses in terms of emotional exhaustion/burnout, depersonalization and personal achievement (reversed); the significant relationship between the profile of staff nurses, their leadership satisfaction, and hospital work-related factors in relation to their level of burnout experiencing; the significant difference in the level of burnout of staff nurses group according to their areas of assignment and the implications of the findings of the study to nursing practice. The respondents of the study were composed of one hundred sixty-four (164) staff nurses assigned in special areas of Philippine Hearth Center during Fiscal Year, 2014. The researcher used the descriptive method of research and convenience sampling technique through standardized inventory test and questionnaire to gather all the needed data to complete the study. The data gathered were encoded, coded and statistically processed using the PASW (formerly known as SPSS or Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The results were presented in a tabular form using frequency count, percentage, mean, Pearson's Product Moment of Correlation, and post-hoc test. In light of the findings of the study, the researcher concluded that there was no significant relationship between the profile of the nurse staff such as age, gender, and years in service as compared with the work-related factors and level of burn out. On the other hand, the profile of salary levels and areas of assignment posited a significant relationship. Hence, the null hypothesis was partially upheld. On the other hand, there was significant positive relationship between areas of assignment and level of burnout among nurses. Thus, the null hypothesis was rejected. In view of the findings, it was recommended that the Nursing Service Department may conduct or facilitate stress relief seminars, activities or projects for the staff nurses to help alleviate stress and slowly aid them in recovering from a state of burn out; the Nursing Service Department may conduct leadership assessment and seminars to address issues of increasing stress in relation to leadership causes. Such measures may result in identifying various coping actions and recovery programs in their workplace; the Nursing Service Department ay assess the working conditions of nurses in relation to the hospital related factors like staffing, physical conditions of nurses, and work hours to address burnout; Similar studies may also be made in different institutions to validate the results presented herein; and A systematic and research-based evaluation tool assessing and measuring leadership skills, job satisfaction; and Level of burnout should be initiated and implemented to sustain the expected performance and outcomes of nursing services.