Assessing the relationship between professional outbreaks, burnout, and job satisfaction among nurses : a cross-sectional study

Abstract EN

Professional outbreaks, burnout, and issues with satisfaction have been explored among nurses that result in patient dissatisfaction, increased mortality, and failure to rescue.

This study aims to evaluate the professional outbreak, stress burnout, and satisfaction among nurses in the region of Saudi Arabia.

A descriptive cross-sectional design was followed by recruiting 297 nurses through the convenient sampling method of King Saud Medical City (KSMC).

A questionnaire, comprising of four parts; Demographic Details, Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS), and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to collect data.

The findings have shown a significant and positive impact of payment (p-value=0.04), promotion (p-value=0.00), fringe benefits (p-value=0.01), contingent rewards (p-value=0.01), operating procedure (p-value=0.00), co-workers (p-value=0.00), nature of work (p-value=0.00), and communication on job satisfaction (p-value=0.02) of nurses.

Moreover, job satisfaction is directly affected by conflicts (p-value=0.01), emotional preparation (p-value=0.01), problems (p-value=0.02), uncertainty (p-value=0.04), and discrimination (p-value=0.00).

Promotion and career development opportunities must be clearly communicated and prevention activities should be instigated to reduce stress.

Moreover, policies should be implemented to deal with the professional burnout to help improve the retention by overcome absenteeism and turnover.-