The 12hour work shift can be influenced on the nurse´s job satisfaction, effective personnel administration, and quality of patient care. The purpose of this study was to explore the perception on the 12hour work shift by nurses.
A total of 516 nurses were selected by convenience sampling from six general hospitals in Seoul. Based on the literature review, the questionnaire on the need of the 12hour work shift was designed by the investigator. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, ANOVA and Duncan´s method as posthoc test.
The results of this study are as follows ;
1. The. need of 12hour work shift
The mean needs of 12hour work shift in the nursing practice, psychological, physical, socioeconomic, and environmental perspectives were 3.05, 2.72, 2.66, 3.08, and 4.22.
2. The need of 12hour work shift by demo-graphic data
For the nursing practice, there was a statistically significant relationship between marital status(p=.021), satisfaction on the 8hour work shift(p=.038), the perception on the 12hour work shift(p=.001) and the need of 12hour work shift.
For the psychological perspectives, there was a statistically significant relationship between marital status(p=.016), the perception on the 12hour work shift (p=.0001) , and the need of 12hour work shift.
For the psychological perspectives, there was a statistically significant relationship between marital status(p=.016), the perception on the 12hour work shift (p=.0001) , and the need of 12hour work shift.
For the physical perspectives, there was a statistically significant relationship between age(p=. 002), marital status(p=.005), the number of children(p=.005), the duration of job career(p=.014), the job position (p=.002), the work shift(p=.030), the perception on the 12hour work shift(p=. 0001) and the need of 12hour work shift.
For the socioeconomic perspectives, there was a statistically significant relationship between the job position (0=.002), the work shift(p=.006), the perception of the 12hour work shift(p=.002)
- and the need of 12hour work shift.
For the environmental perspectives, there was a statisitically significant relationship between the traffic method(p=.05), the duration of the job career(p=.026), the perception on the 12hour work shift(p=.309) and the need of 12hour work shift.
3. The need of 12hour work shift by the demo-graphic data
There was a statistically significant difference between marital status(p=.014), the number of children (p=.038), the job position (p=. 007), the work shift(p=.037), and the perception on the 12-hour work shift(p=.0001) for the need of 12hour work shift.
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