Relationship among Nurses Role Overload, Burnout and Managerial Coping Strategies at Intensive Care Units

Abstract

Work life takes up an important place in human life, and an employee faces many stimuli from internal and external environments and is affected by them in a positive or negative way. Aim: was to investigate relationship among nurses role overload , burnout and managerial coping strategies at Intensive Care Units in Assiut University Hospital. Results: Showed that role overload had highest mean score in General and Casuality ICUs. In addition, coping strategies highest mean scores of rational problem solving , resigned distancing, and seeking support/ventilation were in Casuality and post operative ICUs respectively except passive wishful thinking had highest mean scores in General and Casuality ICUs respectively. Also, burnout had highest mean scores in post operative and general ICU respectively. Conclusions: Nurses employed at ICUs in Assiut University Hospital reported high burnout and use managerial coping strategies as rational problem solving, resigned distancing, seeking support/ ventilation and passive wishful thinking to handle burnout and role overload except passive wishful thinking not used with role overload.