The influence of hospice care stress and death anxiety on job burnout of elderly internal medicine nurses in some hospitals in Beijing City
Objective To investigate the job burnout of elderly internal medicine nurses in some hospitals in Beijing City,and to explore the effects of hospice care pressure and death anxiety on job burnout.Methods From January to March 2022,a total of 186 geriatric internal medicine nurses from 6 tertiary hospitals in Beijing were selected by convenience sampling Method as the survey objects.The hospice care stress scale,death anxiety scale and job burnout scale were used to investigate and the data was analyzed.Results The scores of hospice care stress,death anxiety and job burnout of elderly medical nurses were(128.46±14.28),(6.12±1.48)and(61.42±12.28)points,respectively.The hospice care stress scores of geriatric internal medicine nurses with different ages,professional titles,working years,the number of patients taking care of dying diseases,the number of funerals and whether to participate in hospice care related training were statistically significant(all P<0.05).There were statistically significant differences in death anxiety scores among geriatric internal medicine nurses with different ages,professional titles,working years,the number of patients taking care of dying diseases,the number of funerals and whether participated in hospice related training(all P<0.05).There were statistically significant differences in job burnout scores among geriatric internal medicine nurses with different ages,professional titles,working years,number of patients taking care of dying diseases and whether they participated in hospice related training(all P<0.05).There were positive correlations between hospice care stress scores and job burnout scores of geriatric nurses(r=0.562,P<0.01),death anxiety scores and job burnout scores(r=0.584,P<0.01),and there was a positive correlation between hospice care stress scores and death anxiety scores(r=0.648,P<0.01).Hospice care stress and death anxiety could jointly explain 36.2%of the variation of job burnout of geriatric nurses.Conclusion The hospice care pressure and death anxiety of elderly medical nurses have significant effects on job burnout,and reducing hospice care pressure and death anxiety is helpful to reduce their job burnout level.
Geriatrics departmentNurseHospice care pressureDeath anxietyJob burnout