수술실 간호사의 피로도에 영향을 미치는 요인

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to identify the relations between work stress and fatigue of operating room nurses and factors that influence on the fatigue.

Methods: The subjects of this study were 115 nurses who worked in operating rooms of three hospitals and data were collected fifteen days from August 15 to from 30, 2009. The questionnaire this study used a stress measuring tool that was developed by Hong (1996) and revised and complemented by Kim (2006) and 󰡐Subjective Symptoms for Fatigue󰡑 standardized by the Japaness Industrial Fatigue Research Committee(1970). The data was analyzed by using SPSS 12.0 version for windows for the descriptive statistics, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA , Pearson？ Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Regression.

Results: 1. Subjects' job stress was a mean of 3.77 of 5. The highest scores were found in lack of supplies (score 4.12), professional knowledge and poor skills (score 4.10) and the lowest score was found in physical environment. 2. Subjects' fatigue was a mean of 3.10 of 5. The highest scores were found in physical symptoms (score 3.43) and the lowest scores (2.91) were found in neurosensory symptoms. 3. As a result of analysing job stress according to characteristics of subjects, we found that there were no significant differences in general characteristics and a significant difference in career (F=3.345, p=.022), fatigue symptom time(F=6.048, p=. 001) relating to job performance. 4. We analysed fatigue according to characteristics of subjects and found that there were significant differences in marriage (F=10.529, p=.002), children (F=7.783, p=.006) and sleeping hours (F=5.807, p=.001) in general characteristics; career (F=4.506, p=.005) relating to job; operating hours (F=4.163, p=.008) relating to job performance. 5. We analysed the relations between job stress and fatigue and found that there was a net significant correlation between them (r=0.233, p=.012). That is, the higher job stress, the higher fatigue. 6. A total of 24% answered that factors of their fatigue are job stress, daily operating hours, and sleeping hours.

Conclusion: Based on the results above, as it was confirmed that job stress of operating room nurses, daily operating hors, sleeping hours are factors of fatigue, if they have less job stress and daily working hours and more sleeping hours, it is expected that their fatigue will decrease. Therefore, we should develop physical and mental directions to reduce fatigue of operating room nurses.