A. Background: Health care organizations with improper work practice environments had a higher percentage of nurses who were reporting high levels of burnout. The practice environment was found to have significant effects on burnout. This makes nurses lose their capability to adjust to the work environment and show negative attitudes toward their job, their coworkers, and their patients. Moreover, nurses’ decision-making quality is a very important component of good clinical practice, and nurses’ ability to make decisions is affected by the dynamic of the work environment.

B. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relation of the critical care practice environment, burnout, and decision-making ability among staff nurses at a selected teaching hospital.

C. Setting: This study was conducted at Teaching Hospital affiliated with Cairo University.

D. Research design: Descriptive correlation design.

E. Sample: A convenient sample of all nurses who agreed to participate in the study at data collection time. Their total number was (n=150) nurses.

F. Tools: Data were collected through utilizing three tools as follows: I- The first tool was the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, II- The second tool was the Burnout Inventory, and III- The third tool was the Staff Nurses’ Decision-Making Abilities Questionnaire.

G. Results & conclusion: The present study concluded that there was a statistically significant correlation between critical care practice environment and nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability. While there was no statistically significant correlation between nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability.

H. Recommendations: It was recommended that Managers should create and maintain a practice environment that fosters and supports nurses’ decision-making ability. Administrators and health policymakers must review current organizational policies to reduce barriers in the work practice environment to facilitate opportunities for the provision of nursing-based decisional support.

"/> A. Background: Health care organizations with improper work practice environments had a higher percentage of nurses who were reporting high levels of burnout. The practice environment was found to have significant effects on burnout. This makes nurses lose their capability to adjust to the work environment and show negative attitudes toward their job, their coworkers, and their patients. Moreover, nurses’ decision-making quality is a very important component of good clinical practice, and nurses’ ability to make decisions is affected by the dynamic of the work environment.

B. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relation of the critical care practice environment, burnout, and decision-making ability among staff nurses at a selected teaching hospital.

C. Setting: This study was conducted at Teaching Hospital affiliated with Cairo University.

D. Research design: Descriptive correlation design.

E. Sample: A convenient sample of all nurses who agreed to participate in the study at data collection time. Their total number was (n=150) nurses.

F. Tools: Data were collected through utilizing three tools as follows: I- The first tool was the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, II- The second tool was the Burnout Inventory, and III- The third tool was the Staff Nurses’ Decision-Making Abilities Questionnaire.

G. Results & conclusion: The present study concluded that there was a statistically significant correlation between critical care practice environment and nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability. While there was no statistically significant correlation between nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability.

H. Recommendations: It was recommended that Managers should create and maintain a practice environment that fosters and supports nurses’ decision-making ability. Administrators and health policymakers must review current organizational policies to reduce barriers in the work practice environment to facilitate opportunities for the provision of nursing-based decisional support.

"/> A. Background: Health care organizations with improper work practice environments had a higher percentage of nurses who were reporting high levels of burnout. The practice environment was found to have significant effects on burnout. This makes nurses lose their capability to adjust to the work environment and show negative attitudes toward their job, their coworkers, and their patients. Moreover, nurses’ decision-making quality is a very important component of good clinical practice, and nurses’ ability to make decisions is affected by the dynamic of the work environment.

B. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relation of the critical care practice environment, burnout, and decision-making ability among staff nurses at a selected teaching hospital.

C. Setting: This study was conducted at Teaching Hospital affiliated with Cairo University.

D. Research design: Descriptive correlation design.

E. Sample: A convenient sample of all nurses who agreed to participate in the study at data collection time. Their total number was (n=150) nurses.

F. Tools: Data were collected through utilizing three tools as follows: I- The first tool was the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, II- The second tool was the Burnout Inventory, and III- The third tool was the Staff Nurses’ Decision-Making Abilities Questionnaire.

G. Results & conclusion: The present study concluded that there was a statistically significant correlation between critical care practice environment and nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability. While there was no statistically significant correlation between nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability.

H. Recommendations: It was recommended that Managers should create and maintain a practice environment that fosters and supports nurses’ decision-making ability. Administrators and health policymakers must review current organizational policies to reduce barriers in the work practice environment to facilitate opportunities for the provision of nursing-based decisional support.

"/> A. Background: Health care organizations with improper work practice environments had a higher percentage of nurses who were reporting high levels of burnout. The practice environment was found to have significant effects on burnout. This makes nurses lose their capability to adjust to the work environment and show negative attitudes toward their job, their coworkers, and their patients. Moreover, nurses’ decision-making quality is a very important component of good clinical practice, and nurses’ ability to make decisions is affected by the dynamic of the work environment.

B. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relation of the critical care practice environment, burnout, and decision-making ability among staff nurses at a selected teaching hospital.

C. Setting: This study was conducted at Teaching Hospital affiliated with Cairo University.

D. Research design: Descriptive correlation design.

E. Sample: A convenient sample of all nurses who agreed to participate in the study at data collection time. Their total number was (n=150) nurses.

F. Tools: Data were collected through utilizing three tools as follows: I- The first tool was the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, II- The second tool was the Burnout Inventory, and III- The third tool was the Staff Nurses’ Decision-Making Abilities Questionnaire.

G. Results & conclusion: The present study concluded that there was a statistically significant correlation between critical care practice environment and nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability. While there was no statistically significant correlation between nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability.

H. Recommendations: It was recommended that Managers should create and maintain a practice environment that fosters and supports nurses’ decision-making ability. Administrators and health policymakers must review current organizational policies to reduce barriers in the work practice environment to facilitate opportunities for the provision of nursing-based decisional support.

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Critical Care Practice Environment, Burnout and Decision Making Ability among Staff Nurses at a Selected Teaching Hospital

International Journal of Nursing and Health Science
© 2019 by SSRG - IJNHS Journal
Volume 5 Issue 1
Year of Publication : 2019
Authors : Sahar Hassan Aly EL Banan and Amal Hebashy Elewa
10.14445/24547484/IJNHS-V5I1P102
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Sahar Hassan Aly EL Banan and Amal Hebashy Elewa, "Critical Care Practice Environment, Burnout and Decision Making Ability among Staff Nurses at a Selected Teaching Hospital," SSRG International Journal of Nursing and Health Science, vol. 5,  no. 1, pp. 6-16, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/24547484/IJNHS-V5I1P102

Abstract:

A. Background: Health care organizations with improper work practice environments had a higher percentage of nurses who were reporting high levels of burnout. The practice environment was found to have significant effects on burnout. This makes nurses lose their capability to adjust to the work environment and show negative attitudes toward their job, their coworkers, and their patients. Moreover, nurses’ decision-making quality is a very important component of good clinical practice, and nurses’ ability to make decisions is affected by the dynamic of the work environment.

B. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relation of the critical care practice environment, burnout, and decision-making ability among staff nurses at a selected teaching hospital.

C. Setting: This study was conducted at Teaching Hospital affiliated with Cairo University.

D. Research design: Descriptive correlation design.

E. Sample: A convenient sample of all nurses who agreed to participate in the study at data collection time. Their total number was (n=150) nurses.

F. Tools: Data were collected through utilizing three tools as follows: I- The first tool was the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, II- The second tool was the Burnout Inventory, and III- The third tool was the Staff Nurses’ Decision-Making Abilities Questionnaire.

G. Results & conclusion: The present study concluded that there was a statistically significant correlation between critical care practice environment and nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability. While there was no statistically significant correlation between nurses’ burnout and nurses’ decision-making ability.

H. Recommendations: It was recommended that Managers should create and maintain a practice environment that fosters and supports nurses’ decision-making ability. Administrators and health policymakers must review current organizational policies to reduce barriers in the work practice environment to facilitate opportunities for the provision of nursing-based decisional support.

Keywords:

Work practice environment, Nurses burnout, and Decision-making ability

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