Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 18, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph181910111
Keywords
nurse; mental health; emotional labor; burnout; medical error; turnover intention; South Korea
Funding
- MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea [IITP-2021-2020-0-01791]
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The study revealed that nurses had moderate to high levels of emotional labor and burnout, with 23% experiencing medical errors in the last six months. There were significant and positive correlations among all outcomes. These results can be used to improve mental health outcomes for nurses by focusing on job positions and emotional labor in addressing turnover intention and burnout.
Nurses are vulnerable to mental health challenges, including burnout, as they are exposed to adverse job conditions such as high workload. The mental health of this population can relate not only to individual well-being but also to patient safety outcomes. Therefore, there is a need for a mental health improvement strategy that targets this population. This cross-sectional survey study investigates emotional labor, burnout, turnover intention, and medical error levels among 117 nursing staff members in a South Korean university hospital; it also analyzes correlations among outcomes and conduct correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis to determine relationships among these factors. The participants had moderate to high levels of emotional labor and burnout, and 23% had experienced medical errors within the last six months. Save for medical errors, all outcomes significantly and positively correlated with each other. These results can be used to improve the mental health outcomes of nurses working in the hospital and their consequences. Specifically, the job positions of nursing personnel may be a major consideration in such a strategy, and job-focused emotional labor and employee-focused emotional labor may be promising targets in ameliorating turnover intention and client-related burnout, respectively.
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