The relationship between UK hospital nurse staffing and emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction
The relationship between UK hospital nurse staffing and emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction
Aim: To explore the relationship between nurse outcomes (dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion) and nurse workload, nurse characteristics and hospital variables.
Background: Concern about the impact of restructuring of nurse staffing, and reports of nurse shortages, on nurse and patient outcomes led to the research being reported on in this article.
Methods: A questionnaire survey of registered nurses in Scotland and England. A questionnaire survey of the hospitals in which these nurses worked.
Results: Respondents in the two countries were similar in terms of demographic, work and employment characteristics. Significant relationships were found using the combined English and Scottish data between nurse patient ratios and (1) emotional exhaustion and (2) dissatisfaction with current job reported by nurses.
Conclusions: Increasing numbers of patients to nurses was associated with increasing risk of emotional exhaustion and dissatisfaction with current job.
nursing, outcomes, staffing, survey
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Sheward, Louisa
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Hunt, Jennifer
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Hagen, Suzanne
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Macleod, Margaret
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Ball, Jane
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January 2005
Sheward, Louisa
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Hunt, Jennifer
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Hagen, Suzanne
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Macleod, Margaret
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Ball, Jane
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Sheward, Louisa, Hunt, Jennifer, Hagen, Suzanne, Macleod, Margaret and Ball, Jane
(2005)
The relationship between UK hospital nurse staffing and emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction.
Journal of Nursing Management, 13 (1), .
(doi:10.1111/j.1365-2834.2004.00460.x).
Abstract
Aim: To explore the relationship between nurse outcomes (dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion) and nurse workload, nurse characteristics and hospital variables.
Background: Concern about the impact of restructuring of nurse staffing, and reports of nurse shortages, on nurse and patient outcomes led to the research being reported on in this article.
Methods: A questionnaire survey of registered nurses in Scotland and England. A questionnaire survey of the hospitals in which these nurses worked.
Results: Respondents in the two countries were similar in terms of demographic, work and employment characteristics. Significant relationships were found using the combined English and Scottish data between nurse patient ratios and (1) emotional exhaustion and (2) dissatisfaction with current job reported by nurses.
Conclusions: Increasing numbers of patients to nurses was associated with increasing risk of emotional exhaustion and dissatisfaction with current job.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2003
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 December 2004
Published date: January 2005
Keywords:
nursing, outcomes, staffing, survey
Organisations:
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 389788
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/389788
ISSN: 0966-0429
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Louisa Sheward
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Jennifer Hunt
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Suzanne Hagen
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Margaret Macleod
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Jane Ball
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