Current-status survey on job stressor and exhaustion among nursing staff in the catheter room of grade III- A general hospitals

Abstract

Objective To survey the current status of job stressor and exhaustion among nursing staff in the catheter room of grade Ⅲ-A general hospitals and to look for regularities.Methods 178 nursing staff coming from catheter room,operating room,and outpatient department of Shenzhou Hospital and Fengtian Hospital accepted questionnaires of Chinese Nursing Stressor Scale and Exhaustion Scale in Spring 2010.Results Chinese Nursing Stressor Scale indicated that scores of subitem and total score of job stressor in the catheter room were significantly higher than those in the outpatient department; however,there were no significant differences in scores of subitem and total score of job stressor between catheter room and operating room.On the other hand,Exhaustion Scale showed that scores of emotional exhaustion and job unconcerned feeling in the catheter room were significantly higher than those in the outpatient department,but scores of job achieved feeling in the catheter room were significantly lower than those in the outpatient department.There were no significant differences in Exhaustion Scale between catheter room and operating room nurses.Conclusions Job stressor and exhaustion were serious among nursing staff in the catheter room of grade Ⅲ-A general hospitals,which should cause the attention of management department. Key words: Nurse; Catheter room; Grade Ⅲ-A general hospital; Job stressor; Job exhaustion