Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observation units

South African Journal of Psychiatry

 
 
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Title Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observation units
 
Creator Maila, Siyavuya Martin, Penelope D. Chipps, Jennifer
 
Subject Psychiatry; Nursing Burnout; Compassion Fatigue; Compassion Satisfaction; Professional Quality of Life; Secondary Traumatic Stress
Description Background: Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observations units may be affected by working conditions such as an overflow of mental health care users (MHCUs), a shortage of nurses, lack of specialised staff and inadequate infrastructure to accommodate MHCUs amongst others.Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observation units.Setting: The study was conducted in psychiatric observation units in eight hospitals in the Metropole District Health Services in the Western Cape.Method: A quantitative descriptive survey design using the Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL version 5) questionnaire was conducted with an all-inclusive sample of 175 nurses. The ProQoL has two scales, namely, the compassion satisfaction and the compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue includes two subscales, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Ethics to conduct the study was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee at the university and the Department of Health in the Western Cape.Results: A response rate of 93% (n = 163) was obtained. Respondents reported moderate compassion satisfaction. Psychiatric nurse specialists and registered nurses reported lower compassion satisfaction than enrolled nurses and nursing assistants. This came with moderate levels of burnout and high levels of secondary traumatic stress, with enrolled nurses and enrolled nursing assistants reporting lower levels than the other professional groups.Conclusion: Psychiatric nurse specialists and registered nurses experienced higher burnout and secondary traumatic stress and lower compassion satisfaction than the lower categories of nurses.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Ada Bertie Levenstein Bursary for Nursing Education
Date 2020-08-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Survey
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v26i0.1553
 
Source South African Journal of Psychiatry; Vol 26 (2020); 7 pages 2078-6786 1608-9685
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa 2018 Nurses; average 37.5 years
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Siyavuya Maila, Penelope D. Martin, Jennifer Chipps https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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