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KMID : 1004620100160030145
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Clinical Nursing Research
2010 Volume.16 No. 3 p.145 ~ p.155
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Oncology Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life in a Tertiary Hospital
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Kim Shin
Kim Jeong-Hye
Park Jeong-Yun
Suh Eun-Young
Yang Hwa-Jeong
Lee Su-Yeon
Lee Young-Shin
Jeon Mi-Jin
Lee Soon-Haeng
Kim Kyoung-Ok
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate oncology nurses’ professional quality of life and its correlations with job satisfaction and job stress in a tertiary hospital in Seoul, South Korea.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was utilized to investigate 210 oncology nurses from various oncology and hemato-oncology units. Professional quality of life (ProQOL), which is conceptualized with three sub-dimensions (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress), job satisfaction, job stress, demographic and work-related variables were measured.
Results: The participants were all women, with the mean age of 28.4. The participants with high ProQOL was only 14.8%, and 75.3% and 77.6% of the participants reported a moderate to high level of burnout and secondary traumatic stress respectively. Job satisfaction, age, and the total years of nursing practice have positive correlations with compassion satisfaction. Also, compassion satisfaction was significantly different according to age group, work units, the level of education, nursing positions, and the years of practice.
Conclusion: Since the level of professional quality of life among oncology nurses was relatively low, the program for oncology nurses to improve compassion satisfaction and to decrease compassion fatigue needs to be developed.
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KEYWORD
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Oncology, Nurses, Professional burnout, Quality of life, Personal satisfaction
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