Analyzing the Causes and Consequences of Occupational Burnout among Nurses Based on a Field Study
Subject Areas : Health information management
1 - Department of Clinical Psychology, SR.C, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Occupational Burnout, Nurse, Hospital, Medical Centers, Medical Strategies, Contextual Research.,
Abstract :
Introduction: One of the important medical and health professions faced with occupational burnout phenomenon is nursing. Monitoring the developments, attitudes, causes, contexts, interventions, and consequences of this phenomenon among nurses can pave the way for human resource policies in health centers to control its harms.
Method: From the perspective of nurses working in Tehran, the present research investigated the causes and consequences of occupational burnout and its control strategies using contextual research method. Sampling was done using a theoretical method, and the number of interviewees (sample size) was based on theoretical saturation, 45 nurses from the medical staff in Tehran. After conducting a semi-structured interview, the data were analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin systematic method.
Findings: 144 primary codes, 34 subcategories, 13 main categories, and one core category were extracted from the data coding, and a paradigmatic model was formed in the form of causal, intervening, contextual, strategical, and consequential conditions. The findings indicated that the phenomenon of nurses' occupational burnout originates from the causes of occupational conflict and occupational and organizational causes and, in the context of interaction and social intervention, human resource pressure and social pressure, it leads to negative individual, domestic, social, and occupational consequences and degrading the quality of their professional, personal, and family life.
Conclusion: To reduce nurses' occupational burnout, it is necessary to utilize individual strategies (personal adjustment, counseling, and psychoanalysis), family strategies (domestic support), and organizational strategies (reducing work-family conflict, reforming the organizational structure, involving nurses in policymaking and respecting and encouraging them, reforming organizational interactions, strengthening human resources, and reforming social interactions between nurses and the community).
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