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- Title
Professional exhaustion, quality and intentions among family health nurses.
- Authors
Lorenz, Vera Regina; Sabino, Marcos Oliveira; Corrêa Filho, Heleno Rodrigues
- Abstract
Objective: to analyze how family health nurses assess quality of care; check if they have any intention of leaving their current job and nursing; estimate prevalence of professional exhaustion; and correlate these variables. Method: cross-sectional and correlational study with 198 nurses. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was applied, as it has questions for characterizing nurses, assessing perception on quality of care and of material and human resources, and verifying intention of leaving current work and nursing. Results: most nurses assess quality of care as good, 28.0% present emotional exhaustion, there is intention of leaving current work and nursing. Conclusions: family health nurses experience professional exhaustion, which in turn presents correlation with decreased quality of care and increased intentions of leaving current work and nursing.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MEDICAL quality control; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING; SCIENTIFIC observation; CROSS-sectional method; JOB satisfaction; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, p2295
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0510