Turkish nurses' burnout levels, job satisfaction, and mental symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Nurses involved in healthcare delivery during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic experience higher levels of burnout, job satisfaction, and mental symptoms than other healthcare professionals did.Objectives: This study examined nurses' burnout level, job satisfaction, and mental symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: A descriptive, correlational study was conducted on 262 nurses working at a foundation university hospital in Istanbul between July and December 2021. The data were collected by using the Nurse Information Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale, and Mental Symptom Checklist. Data analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Spearman correlation, and Bonferroni post hoc test.Results: Nurses’ Burnout, Job Satisfaction, and Mental Symptom average scores were 70.36±11.00, 2.80±0.49, and 1.20±0.79, respectively. A statistically significant negative and weak relationship was found between burnout, and job satisfaction average scores (r=-0.380; P<0.001). Age, marital status, and income level were associated with burnout, job satisfaction, and mental symptoms (P<0.05).Conclusion: Nurses had a moderate level of burnout, a low level of job satisfaction, and a high level of mental symptoms

The relationship between nurses’ attitudes toward vital signs monitoring and emotional intelligence levels

Aim: The study aims to determine the relationship between nurses’ attitudes toward vital signs and emotional intelligence levels. Method: The descriptive and correlational study was conducted with 301 nurses. Data were collected using the Nurse Information Form, V-Scale and Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale. The data analyzed using descriptive and correlational statistics. Results: The V-Scale and Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale total scores average of the nurses were good level and no statistical relationship between them (p>0.05). However, remarkable relationships between the total and sub-dimension scores of the relevant scales were demonstrated. Communication, empathy, emotional awareness and managing skills are important competences for vital signs monitoring. Conclusion: Based on the findings obtained from the research, it can be concluded that nurses’ attitudes toward vital signs monitoring, and emotional intelligence could be affected different variables. In future, different types (experimental, qualitative etc.) of studies should be for explaining between nurses’ attitude to monitoring vital signs and emotional intelligence. Policy makers and managers should focus more on variables that affect nurses’ attitude to monitoring vital signs