This thesis aims to provide nurses with the fundamental supporting materials to improve nursing quality and to advance hospital organization, by searching for controlling method which promotes organization commitment and by suggesting how to control ...
This thesis aims to provide nurses with the fundamental supporting materials to improve nursing quality and to advance hospital organization, by searching for controlling method which promotes organization commitment and by suggesting how to control burnout through understanding and analyzing the standard of organization commitment and burnout of clinic nurses.
The research subjectee are 347 nurses working for general hospitals, J, N, R, in Seoul, which have over 400 beds and for a university hospital, during 15 days, from September 6, 2001 to September 21, 2001. The data are obtained from written answers on specified written questions.
The research tools are the criteria for organization commitment by Mowday et. al,(1979) and Buchnan(1974), and the measurement method for burnout experience by Pines et. al (1981).
The confidence level of these tools are Cronbach's alpha 0.9107 for organization commitment and Cronbach's alpha 0.8924 for burnout experience, respectively. The SPSS statistic program is used to analyze the obtained data, and the results are as follows.
1)In general aspects of nurses, as a socialogical point of view, 30% clinical nurses are 30∼35 years old, which is the largest population group, 15.9% of nurses are older than 36 years, which is the lowest population group. 56.8% are unmarried, 59.3% have religions, 66.3% graduated 3-year community colleges.
In duty-related aspects of subjectee, majorities are as follows. 47.8% of nurses have work experiences less than 5 years, 89.0% are general nurses, 39.5% work in the department of surgery, 58.5% receive monthly income between 151-200Man won. 56.8% of nurses experienced change of working-department, among them 60.9% were independent of their will, 58.2% are satisfied with their current department, 35.2% were influence by encouragement of their friends and family when chose their carrier as nurses, and 47.8% want to continue their job only until it is necessary.
2)The average point of organization commitment of subjectee is 3.02 out of 5.0. The highest point, 3.22, is on attachment to organization, 2.99 on identification themselves with the organization, and 2.80 is on continuance in work.
3)The degree of burnout experience is 2.70 out of 5.0 in average, and 2.86 is on physical burnout, 2.79 on mental burnout, and 2.48 on emotional burnout, respectively.
4)The correlation between organization commitment and burnout experience of subjectee shows strong reverse correlation (r=-.545, p=.000), which means burnout experience decreases as organization commitment increases.
5)Among general specifications related to organization commitment, considerable statistical difference in organization commitment is shown at ages, education level, clinical experience, position, income level, satisfaction on current department, motivation for choosing carrier as a nurse, and expected time as a nurse, while marrital status, religion, current working department, experience in change of working department, and reflex of the will in change of working department are dismissed in statistical difference test.
6)Among general specifications related to burnout experience, ages, marrital status, religion, education level, clinical experience, position, current working department, income level, experience in change of working department, satisfaction on current department, motivation for choosing nursing, and expected time as a nurse show considerable statistical difference in organization commitment, while reflex of the will in change of working department shows no statistical difference.
It is concluded from this research that it is important for hospital managers and people at nursing administration to find solutions for improving organization commitment of nurses because it is shown that the burnout experience decreases as the organization commitment increases.