Work engagement and its influencing factors in emergency nurses

Abstract

Objective To investigate the current status and influencing factors of work engagement in emergency nurses, put forward a feasible strategy, improve the emergency department nurses work engagement for the emergency department to build effective human resource management to provide the reference. Methods A total 226 emergency nurses from 8 hospital of first-class in Tianjin city were recruited by the convenience sampling method and investigated with a self designed, the Medical Personnel's Work Engagement Questionnaire. Results The total score of Medical Personnel's Work Engagement Questionnaire was 111-166(137.32±12.48) points and the scores were the highest in interpersonal concordance (4.20±0.46) points and the lowest in work vigor (3.01±0.61) points. Variance analysis and multiple linear regression analysis showed that gender, employment category and number of years as an emergency nurses were the influencing factors of work engagement, which could explain 51.3% of the variance. Conclusions Work engagement emergency of nurses is at a relatively moderate-to-high level, through establishing an effective incentive mechanism, increasing social benefits, accelerating the construction of emergency specialist nurse training system and paying attention to occupational development, work engagement level and quality of emergency medical care can be improved. Key words: Emergency service, hospital; Nurses; Work engagement; Related factor