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 Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2023), Pages: 175-181

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 Original Research Paper

 Impact of nurses’ burnout on safety culture

 Author(s): 

Alfredo Z. Feliciano 1, Evelyn E. Feliciano 1, 2, *, Joan Russel D. Feliciano 1, Ferdinand M. Gonzales 3, Jupiter V. Cajigal 3, Carlo G. Tolentino 4, Diane Anne A. Lozano 1, Delma Joie D. Magtubo 1, Christian Leandro S. Monieno 1, Annabelle G. Nacpil 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1College of Nursing and Graduate Studies, Angeles University Foundation, Angeles, 2009, Philippines
 2Department of Nursing, College of Dentistry and Nursing, Vision Colleges, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 3Medical Surgical Department, College of Nursing, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia
 4Medical Admissions Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9120-1534

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.01.022

 Abstract:

Literature indicates that burnout emphasizes its implication in the development of safety issues governing healthcare providers with physical and mental exhaustion associated with it. This study advocated determining burnout and its possible effect on key performance indicators on patient safety outcomes and in the eventual recommendation of preventive actions in policies governing nursing practice. Specifically, it ventured to determine the relationship between nurses’ burnout and their compliance with safety outcomes. A quantitative correlational study was designed to determine 274 purposive samples of registered nurses from participating government and non-government hospitals in Tarlac and Pampanga, Philippines towards their burnout and its relationship on key performance indicators on patient safety outcomes. Data were collected through two standardized self-administered questionnaires, Oldenburg Inventory Scale and the Key Performance Indicators on Patient Safety Outcomes Questionnaire, between February and May 2020. The study revealed that nurses, with a mean age of 27.86 (SD+4.81) years, experienced burnout due to work disengagement (18.10+2.812) and exhaustion (19.81+2.910). Safety guidelines on patient outcomes related to blood management (3.74+0.538) and fall prevention (3.15+0.468) received the highest mean scores with pressure ulcer management (2.82+0.597), the lowest. The study found several significant correlations between nurses’ disengagement, exhaustion, and total burnout with their overall safety culture (r=0.321, p=0.000; r=-0.225, p=0.003). All identified relationships showed a negative correlation suggesting that higher burnout scores are significantly related to lower safety culture scores. Nurses' ability to provide standard-based measures in upholding safety as a priority can be compromised at a considerable level. Recognizing the role of nurses' well-being in healthcare, policymakers should not only emphasize the need for evidence-based, quality, and safe interventions but also investigate the nurses' work conditions and contributory factors for burnout.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Burnout, Delivery of healthcare, Nurses, Patient safety, Safety culture, Safety management

 Article History: Received 14 June 2022, Received in revised form 5 October 2022, Accepted 7 October 2022

 Acknowledgment 

All authors would like to thank the nurses working in the participating hospitals of the study either in the Philippine government or non-government health facilities, who voluntarily and willingly participated in this academic scholarly study.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical consideration: 

The protocol of this study was submitted and reviewed by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hafr Al Batin, Al-Batin with approval no. 14 dated 24th February 2020 under committee registration KACST No. H-05-FT-083. Likewise, the respondents were informed of the study purpose and its nature before informed consent is obtained with their right to anonymity, confidentiality, and refusal, and without being penalized once decided to withdraw at any time in the study. No animal or human studies were carried out by the authors.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

Feliciano AZ, Feliciano EE, Feliciano JRD, Gonzales FM, Cajigal JV, Tolentino CG, Lozano DAA, Magtubo DJD, Monieno CLS, and Nacpil AG (2023). Impact of nurses’ burnout on safety culture. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(1): 175-181

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