Professional quality of life among female nurses

Abstract

The aim of the study was to find the difference in the professional quality of life- compassion satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue among female staff nurses and nurses in charge. A non-experimental causal comparative research design was used. A total of 20 female nurses (11 staff nurses and 9 nurses in charge) currently working in private hospitals in different cities of India, took part in the study. The participants were chosen randomly and by snowball sampling. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was administered to them and three independent sample t- tests were run in order to analyse the data. It was found that staff nurses scored higher in burnout, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue as compared to nurses in charge thus accepting all the three stated hypotheses. Although there were limitations for the research, the data was found to be significant and can be useful for further research to help introduce interventions for nurses at an earlier level and improve the professional quality of life of nurses.