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Abstract
Introduction: Compassion Fatigue (CF) is a multidimensional construct framed within the Stamm's 2010 model of Professional Quality of Life. Studies evaluating Professional Quality of Life among nurse managers are of utmost relevance. The management of nursing services requires energy, commitment, time, and resources. To achieve the best results, nurse managers have to cope with the constant pressure of the economic and quality of care indicators results, which have been aggravated with the pandemic context. The nurse manager has a key role promoting a positive patient safety culture associated with ensuring the mental and physical well-being of nurses, in order to prevent work-related risks.
Objective: To assess sociodemographic and professional variables and the safety culture in predicting the three dimensions of the Professional Quality of Life Scale in nurse managers of Portuguese hospital organizations.
Methodology: The study followed a quantitative, descriptive-correlational, and cross-sectional research design. Using a snowball sampling strategy, 127 nurse managers participated in the study and completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQoL5), and the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
Results and Discussion: Different regression models were run considering the different dimensions of PROQoL5 (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress). The model predicting compassion satisfaction explained 35.3% of the variance. Results revealed that having (not having) children and high (low) scores in the dimensions of supervisor/manager expectations and actions promoting patient safety, organizational learning - continuous improvement, communication and feedback about the error, and transitions predicted high (low) compassion satisfaction. The model predicting burnout explained 40% of the variance. In this model, high (low) scores on teamwork, inter-unit work, and staffing dimensions, and low (high) scores on communication and feedback about the error predicted low (high) burnout. The model predicting secondary traumatic stress explained 34.5% of the variance. Results revealed that high (low) scores on the teamwork dimension, and low (high) scores on non-punitive error response predicted low (high) secondary traumatic stress. The paradigm of error management in organizations is a common predictor among the three dimensions of PROQoL5. In the Portuguese context during the pandemic of COVID-19, the professionals belonging to families with a structure composed of the couple, parental and filial subsystems showed more cohesion, flexibility, and resilience, compared to the family typologies without children, suggesting a better adjustment to the crisis, with more internal resources available in a context of adversity.
Conclusion: In the management of nursing services, ensuring the best care services projects, environments, and practices that promote patients safety culture is critical to provide professionals with better working conditions, greater job satisfaction, and prevent nurses' compassion fatigue.
Notes
This presentation was accepted as a poster. The format was modified to a brief presentation to accommodate the hybrid in-person/virtual event.
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Non-member
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Presentation
Format Type
Text-based Document, Video Recording
Study Design/Type
Descriptive/Correlational
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Compassion Fatigue, Quality of Life, Nurse Managers, Portugal
Recommended Citation
Pereira, Joana; Canário, Ana Catarina; Trindade, Letícia; and Borges, Elisabete, "Family Characteristics and Patient Safety Culture Predict Professional Quality of Life Among Nurse Managers" (2025). Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE). 19.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/chwe/2023/presentations_2023/19
Conference Name
Creating Healthy Work Environments
Conference Host
Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Austin, Texas, USA and Virtual
Conference Year
2023
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Family Characteristics and Patient Safety Culture Predict Professional Quality of Life Among Nurse Managers
Austin, Texas, USA and Virtual
Introduction: Compassion Fatigue (CF) is a multidimensional construct framed within the Stamm's 2010 model of Professional Quality of Life. Studies evaluating Professional Quality of Life among nurse managers are of utmost relevance. The management of nursing services requires energy, commitment, time, and resources. To achieve the best results, nurse managers have to cope with the constant pressure of the economic and quality of care indicators results, which have been aggravated with the pandemic context. The nurse manager has a key role promoting a positive patient safety culture associated with ensuring the mental and physical well-being of nurses, in order to prevent work-related risks.
Objective: To assess sociodemographic and professional variables and the safety culture in predicting the three dimensions of the Professional Quality of Life Scale in nurse managers of Portuguese hospital organizations.
Methodology: The study followed a quantitative, descriptive-correlational, and cross-sectional research design. Using a snowball sampling strategy, 127 nurse managers participated in the study and completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQoL5), and the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
Results and Discussion: Different regression models were run considering the different dimensions of PROQoL5 (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress). The model predicting compassion satisfaction explained 35.3% of the variance. Results revealed that having (not having) children and high (low) scores in the dimensions of supervisor/manager expectations and actions promoting patient safety, organizational learning - continuous improvement, communication and feedback about the error, and transitions predicted high (low) compassion satisfaction. The model predicting burnout explained 40% of the variance. In this model, high (low) scores on teamwork, inter-unit work, and staffing dimensions, and low (high) scores on communication and feedback about the error predicted low (high) burnout. The model predicting secondary traumatic stress explained 34.5% of the variance. Results revealed that high (low) scores on the teamwork dimension, and low (high) scores on non-punitive error response predicted low (high) secondary traumatic stress. The paradigm of error management in organizations is a common predictor among the three dimensions of PROQoL5. In the Portuguese context during the pandemic of COVID-19, the professionals belonging to families with a structure composed of the couple, parental and filial subsystems showed more cohesion, flexibility, and resilience, compared to the family typologies without children, suggesting a better adjustment to the crisis, with more internal resources available in a context of adversity.
Conclusion: In the management of nursing services, ensuring the best care services projects, environments, and practices that promote patients safety culture is critical to provide professionals with better working conditions, greater job satisfaction, and prevent nurses' compassion fatigue.
Description
Sociodemographic and professional variables and the safety culture in predicting the three dimensions of the Professional Quality of Life Scale in nurse managers of Portuguese hospital organizations.
Target Audience: Academic and Leaders
Themes: Academic, Stress and Coping