This study has the feature of cross-sectional survey study to investigate the difference on sleep quality, fatigue, work- life balance, and job satisfaction by shift work of an intensive care unit nurses. The respondents were 130 nurses who have 2-shi...
This study has the feature of cross-sectional survey study to investigate the difference on sleep quality, fatigue, work- life balance, and job satisfaction by shift work of an intensive care unit nurses. The respondents were 130 nurses who have 2-shift work or 3-shift work in the intensive care of A superior general hospital, and the structured questionnaires were collected from June 1 to June 24, 2022. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test and Chi-squared test.
The main results of this study are as follows.
1. For the sleep quality by shift work of intensive care nurse, mean of 2shift work nurse was 8.05, and mean of 3shift work nurse was 7.39, and it indicated that 2shift work nurse was lower than 3 shift work. Nonetheless, there was no significant difference between them (t=0.13, p=.228). The usage of sleeping pill of 2shift work nurse is higher than 3shift work, and there was significant difference (t=2.81, p=.006).
2. For the fatigue by shift work of intensive care nurse, mean of 2shift work nurse was 4.64, and mean of shift work nurse was 4.59, and it indicated that 2shift work nurse was higher than 3shift work. Nonetheless, there was no significant difference between them (t=0.36, p=.722).
3. For work and life balance by shift work of intensive care nurse, mean of 2shift work nurse was 3.45, and mean of 3shift work nurse was 3.33, and it indicated that 2shift work nurse was higher than 3shift work. Nonetheless, there was no significant difference between them (t=0.91, p=.363).
4. For job satisfaction by shift work of intensive care nurse, mean of 2shift work nurse was 2.89, and mean of 3shift work nurse was 2.77, and it indicated that job satisfaction of 2 shift work nurse was higher than 3shift work. (t=2.42, p=.017).
The results demonstrated that job satisfaction of 2work shift nurse was higher than 3shift work, and there was no significant difference on sleep quality, fatigue, and work and life balance between them. Consequently, based on these results, the shift work of intensive care nurse should be focused attention to, and in future, the effort to improve sleep quality, fatigue, work and life balance, and life satisfaction of nurse through replication about various work types should be needed.