Emotional Labor and Job Exhaustion according to Verbal Violence in Outpatient Nursing Staffs of University Hospitals*
Eun Ja, Kim
Department of Health Policy and Management
Graduate school of Public Health, Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea...
Emotional Labor and Job Exhaustion according to Verbal Violence in Outpatient Nursing Staffs of University Hospitals*
Eun Ja, Kim
Department of Health Policy and Management
Graduate school of Public Health, Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea
(supervised by Professor Kim, Keon-Yeop)
(Abstract)
The purpose of this study is to clarify outpatient nursing staffs' experience level of verbal violence by external clients and the relationship between emotional labor and job exhaustion.
The subjects of this study were 113 staffs of Daegu A University Hospital and B University Hospital, who have worked for no less than 1 year in outpatient area. The data collection period was from December 2017 to January 2018 and it was self-surveyed. The questionnaire consists of total of 38 items including general characteristics, experiences of verbal violence, emotional labor, job exhaustion, coping with experiences of verbal violence, prevention of verbal violence and prevention of recurrence.
The level of verbal violence experienced by the subject was 2.07 ± 0.756, emotional labor was 3.56 ± 0.522, and job exhaustion was 3.66 ± 0.579. As a significant difference statistically depending on age group (F=5.43, p<.01). It was 3.91 in the age group of no older than 39, which was higher than 3.37 in the age group of 50 to 59. It showed significant difference depending on total work period (F=3.92, p<.001). As a result of the post test, it was 3.75 in the group of 11 to 20 years and 3.73 in the group of 21 to 30 year respectively, which were higher than 3.24 in the group of no less than 31 years in the level of job exhaustion. The experience of verbal violence was proved to show significant relationship with emotional labor and job exhaustion respectively as r=.355 and r=.369 (p<.01).
As a result of hierarchical multiple regression analysis with job exhaustion as a dependent variable, it was confirmed that verbal violence experience significantly affects job exhaustion (p<.001), and the model explanatory power was added by 11.0% compared to the previous step.
Respondents' responses to their verbal violence experience were most often the ones trying to comfort their feeling by talking with their colleagues. Among the respondents' requests for prevention of verbal violence and the prevention of recurrence, the most frequent cases were active countermeasures and customer segregation by expanding the civil affairs processing staff at separate civil service centers.
In conclusion, the outpatient nursing staff of university hospital had higher experience of verbal violence, and the higher the experience of verbal violence, the higher the job exhaustion. Currently, the way of coping with them by employees is to solve them by personal methods, and they demand the hospital's active coping. Therefore, it is necessary to develop administrative and institutional methods such as coping education and counseling program, patient and guardian education, counseling center and manpower expansion to improve awareness of verbal violence in outpatient clinic by hospitals and members and prevent them.
* A thesis submitted to the Council of the Graduate School of Public Health Kyungpook National University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in June 2018.