Assessment of the nurses' work environment using the nursing work index scale
Journal Title: Cumhuriyet Medical Journal - Year 2016, Vol 38, Issue 4
Abstract
Objective: One of the major reasons for the increase in nurse turnover rate in hospitals is the nurses’ negative work environment. The negativity of the work environment reduces nurses’ performance and adversely affects the quality of patient care and patient and health care workers safety. This present study was conducted to determine nurses' assessment of the work environments. Method: In this cross-sectional study, the study sample comprised 174 nurses who worked in Cumhuriyet University Hospital between October - November 2014, agreed to participate in the study and filled in the data collection forms completely. Data were collected with the sociodemographic characteristics questionnaire and the "Nursing Work Index- the Practice Environment Scale”. Results: The mean age of the participating nurses was 32.09 ± 7:09. Of them, 86.8% were women, 64.9% were married, 74.7% had a graduate degree, 84.5% were permanently employed, 32.2% had a working experience in the profession less than 5 years and 79.9% were the members of a union or association. The total mean score obtained from the scale was X = 2.16 ± 0.49. Of the participants in the study, those who were male, contractual employees and/or members of a professional organization and whose length of service was under 5 years perceived their work environment more positively (p <0.05). No statistically significant relationship was determined between the total scores and variables ‘age, education level, professional title, and average monthly income level’ (p> 0.05). Conclusions: It was found that the participating nurses assessed the work environment as moderately whereas they perceived the "adequacy of manpower and other resources" subscale negatively.
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Hatice Ulusoy, Reyhan Polatkan
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