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- Title
NURSES' EXPERIENCE OF BURNOUT SYNDROME WHILE WORKING IN ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENTS.
- Authors
PRASCEVICIUTE, AUGUSTE; GIEDRIENE, LAURA
- Abstract
Introduction: When experiencing burnout, the emotional and physical health of nurses deteriorates, the quality of work decreases, and patient dissatisfaction increases. nurses working in oncology units, due to the nature of their specialty, face those with a cancer diagnosis, which causes a lot of fear and uncertainty. Aim: to reveal the burnout experienced by nurses working in oncology departments. Material and methods: During the research, ethical principles were observed. The research sample consisted of 143 male and female respondents who care for patients with oncological diseases. Respondents were selected by convenience non-probability sampling. Of all subjects, 120 (83.9%) were women, 23 (16.1%) were men. A quantitative study was carried out. Respondents were selected by convenience nonprobability sampling. The research was conducted in 2023.10 - 11. The respondents were nurses working in the city of Klaipeda (Lithuania). The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. The total Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the questionnaire's internal scales is 0.876. The obtained data were processed using the Microsoft 365® Excel computer program. Results: The process of the study revealed that nurses working in oncology departments had the strongest personal and work-related burnout. The most common factors leading to burnout were lack of feedback from patients and decreased energy. Conclusions: After examining the manifestation of burnout syndrome, it became clear that nurses with personal burnout usually experience frequent fatigue and emotional exhaustion. Burnout caused by work was most strongly related to emotionally exhausting work and fatigue at the end of the working day, and burnout caused by work with patients was most strongly determined by decreased energy due to work with patients, lack of feedback from patients. The least burnout caused by working with patients was caused by irritation while working with patients and difficult work with patients.
- Subjects
MICROSOFT Corp.; ONCOLOGY nursing; NURSE burnout; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; CONVENIENCE sampling (Statistics); NONPROBABILITY sampling; CRONBACH'S alpha
- Publication
Medical Science Pulse, 2024, Vol 18, p92
- ISSN
2544-1558
- Publication type
Abstract