earticle

영어

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of job stress, hardness and burnout amongemergency room nurses. Methods: The subjects were 110 emergency room nurses from three university hospitaland three general hospital, with more than 500 beds, in G city and J region. Data collection was done from October11 to November 12, 2010. Results: The score of job stress was 3.8 out of 5 point, the score of hardness was 2.6out of 4 point, and the score of burnout was 3.3 out of 5 point. Burnout was found to be in a significant positivecorrelation with job stress and significant negative correlation with hardness. The main predictors of burnout wereto hardness, job stress and night duty, and these variables explained 45.2% about burnout. Conclusion: In conclusion,the higher job stress was in higher burnout and the higher hardness was in the lower burnout. It is necessaryto create improvement ways and programs to reduce and prevent burnout of emergency room nurses.