Burnout And Empathic Tendency Levels In Emergency Nurses

Objective: It is highly important that the factors affecting the burnout and empathic tendency levels of emergency nurses be determined, in order to increase the contentedness of individuals receiving health care service and their relatives, and to make the health care services more quality. The purpose is to determine factors that affect the burnout and empathic tendency levels of emergency nurses.
Material and Methods: This research is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. In this study; the “Maslach Burnout Inventory”, the “Empathic Tendency Scale” and the introductory information form for nurses were utilized for data acquisition.
Results: 129 emergency nurses participated in this research.The participant nurses are 22.5% male. The mean score of MBI was observed to be higher in nurses, who partially voluntarily chose their vocation, who are uncontent with their job, and who regard their quality of work life as very bad and bad. The ETS score was observed to be higher in nurses, who voluntarily and partially voluntarily chose their vocation, and who love their profession.
Conclusion: As empathic skill and tendency can be improved via education; the empathic tendency skills of nurses to be improved via continuous education programmes