Dilek Ekici; Kamuran Cerit; Tugba Mert
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Introduction: Nurses who have difficulty balancing their family role and responsibilities because of intense work pressure tend to leave their current jobs to work in organizations which offer better working conditions, lower workloads, and more managerial support. Objective: This study aimed to determine ...
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Introduction: Nurses who have difficulty balancing their family role and responsibilities because of intense work pressure tend to leave their current jobs to work in organizations which offer better working conditions, lower workloads, and more managerial support. Objective: This study aimed to determine nurses’ work-family conflict (WFC), job satisfaction, and intention to leave the job in a private hospital. Methods: This descriptive study is based on a methodological and causal research design. The population of the study included 98 nurses working in a private hospital. The research model is tested with structural equation modelling (SEM). Results: Nurses working changing shifts reported statistically higher levels of work-to-family conflict and workload than those consistently working daytime shifts. Managerial support and workload explained 48% of WFC. Work structure alone explained 44% of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction and WFC explained 17% of the variance in intention to leave. Conclusion: Nurses who have difficulty balancing their family roles and responsibilities because of intense work pressure tend to leave their current jobs to work in organizations which offer better working conditions, lower workload, and more managerial support. The work structure of nurses should be reorganized in order to enhance nurses’ job satisfaction.
Parvin Ebrahimi; Zainab Malmoon; Rouhollah Zaboli
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Background: The high workload of nurses in hospitals has been identified as a patient safety and worker stress problem. Psychological empowerment is a motivational concept demonstrated in four dimensions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Objective: This study investigated the relationship ...
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Background: The high workload of nurses in hospitals has been identified as a patient safety and worker stress problem. Psychological empowerment is a motivational concept demonstrated in four dimensions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Objective: This study investigated the relationship between nurses’ workloads and psychological empowerment using structural equations modeling (SEM). Methods: This descriptive correlation study was conducted using SEM. The study was conducted at 17 public hospitals affiliated with Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) in the city of Tehran. The population study was nurses employed in critical care departments. Two questionnaires were used to gather data: the NASA and the Psychological Empowerment Questionnaires. Differences in categorical variables were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Confirmatory factor analyses were used to confirm the relationships between latent variables and indicator variables; SEM was used to find the direct and indirect effects of nurse’s workload on psychological empowerment. Data analyses were performed using SPSS 18, and all models were tested in LISREL 8.8. Results: Correlations among indicators of nurse’s workload showed that highest correlations were performances (0.61), and the highest correlations among psychological empowerment were competence (0.03). The overall correlations among nursing workloads and psychological empowerment were 0.74. The proposed structural model fit was acceptable (χ2 = 525.5, df = 89, RMSEA = 0.13, GFI = 0.91). Conclusion: Increasing the workload of nurses in hospitals will better engage the nurses and allow them to face new problems they encounter in their jobs.