Work Engagement, Moral Distress and Critical Reflective Practice among Nursing Personnel in Intensive Care Units at Zagazig University Hospitals | ||||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 11, Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 2015, 2015, Page 146-160 PDF (1.56 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029256 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Asmaa Kamal Ahmed1; Neamat Mohammed Elsayed2; Maha Abdeen Abdeen3; Fatma Gouda Metwally3 | ||||
| 1Assistant Lecturer of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing- Fayoum University | ||||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing- Damanhour University, | ||||
| 3Lecturer of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing- Zagazig University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Work engagement is the key to hospitals efforts to retain nurses and mitigate future nursing shortages through reducing moral distress and applying critical reflective practice to enhance nursing career. Aim of the study: was to assess nurses' work engagement, moral distress and critical reflective practice among nursing personnel in intensive care units at Zagazig University Hospitals. Subjects & methods: Research design: A descriptive correlation design carried out this study. Setting: The present study was conducted in the Emergency Hospital with an Intensive Care Casualty Unit of 15 beds; and the New Surgical Hospital with a surgical Intensive Care Unit with 24 beds, at Zagazig University Hospitals. Subjects: the present study includes convenience staff nurses (n=124), 70 of staff nurses were from surgical intensive care unit, and 54 of them from the intensive casualty unit. Tools of data collection: by using a questionnaire sheet for nurses composed of four parts, Personnel characteristics sheet, The Utrecht work engagement scale, Moral distress scale of nurses and Critical Reflective Practice Questionnaire. Results: The majority of nurses (83.9%) were having high level of work engagement while most of them (96.8%) were level of they have higher critical reflective practice and most of them (92.7%) were having low level of moral distress with their work. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant relation between nurses' work engagement and their critical reflective practice, while there was no statistically significant relation between nurses' work engagement and their moral distress. As well, there was no statistically significant relation between nurses' critical reflective practice and their moral distress. Recommendations: Develop job description for nurses work in intensive care units and new performance appraisal tool, establish guidelines/protocols to address ethical issues, involve staff members in the development of organizational policies and guidelines, establish a journal for nurses and advocate for increased nursing education funding | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Nurses' work engagement; Moral distress- Critical reflective practice | ||||
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