Service, self-sacrifice, vocation? The threats of burnout among nurses.
Pálfi, F.:

Objective: To identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome among nurses in healthcare and social welfare institutions. To explore the relationships between burnout and socio-demographic factors. To assess the role of patient severity as a work problem at ICUs, active and chronic wards.
Sample and methods: An internationally accepted and used, colsed, self-administered anonymous questionnaire, standardised to burnout-syndrome (with the exception of socio-demographic questions) was used. A randomised sample of nurses in healthcare and social welfare institutions in Pécs, Hungary was surveyed in 2000. Altogether 805 questionnaires were returned and analysed.
Results: None of the socio-demographic factors was found to correlate with the total score of the burnout questionnaire. The type of care at the ward was of decisive importance, with higher burnout-rates among ICU nurses, followed by nursing personnel at chronic and finally active wards. Another influencing factor was extra work beyond the full-time job, as well as the lack of moral and financial rewards.

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Nursing documentation in the IT system
Nyakas, E.

Electronic nursing documentation is a basic element of modern nursing science. Its use makes the nurses work easier, increases the institution's economic efficiency and keeps abreast with developments in science. Achievements in information technology and changes within the healthcare system make it necessary for nursing to catch up. The nursing management at Fejér County Hospital in Hungary set the objective of implementing electronic nursing documentation. The guiding principle of development activities was the need to develop a system that is easily applied and in all disciplines, is clear, leads to time savings and offers a unified system in terms of both content and format.

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