Effect of lemon aromatherapy cream on burnout nurse in emergency room

Abstract

Burnout on the emergency room nurses due to routine activities for a long time and if it's not handled, it decreases the quality of nursing services. Due to a patient's condition who needs emergency treatment, the emergency room nurses have a higher workload that causes burnout. Lemon aromatherapy with linalool helps reduce fatigue. The study aims to identify burnout in emergency room nurses due to routine activities for a long time and if it's not handled, it decreases the quality of nursing service. This study is quasi-experiment research with one Pre and post-test group Design without control. The research population is 70 emergency room nurses in a Regional Public Hospital in Central Java, Indonesia. The sampling technique with total sampling obtained 70 respondents. Data collection used MBI-HHS (Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Service Survey) questionnaire. The study result shows that before giving the intervention, burnout level is medium, at 68,6%. After giving the intervention, it becomes 65,7%. It can be concluded that there is an effect of giving lemon aromatherapy cream on the burnout level of emergency room nurses with a p=value of 0,019 is less than 0,05.