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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Determination of the relationship between quality of life and spiritual trends of nurses
Hatice Polat*, Gülcan Bahçecioglu Turan*
and
Mehtap Tan*
*Ataturk University, Turkey
Objective
: This study aims to determine the relationship between empathy exhaustion, quality of life, burnout and job
satisfaction and spiritual orientation of nurses working in hospitals.
Methods
: This study was conducted with 379 nurses working at a university and a state hospital located in the eastern Turkey
between April 20 and September 11, 2016. For data collection, a questionnaire on introductory characteristics of nurses, the
Work-Related Quality of Life (WRQoL) to assess nurses' quality of life at work, and Spiritual Orientation Inventory (SOI) were
used to evaluate their spiritual orientation and experience. The evaluation of the data was performed by SPSS 21 statistical
program in computer environment.
Results
:Of the nurses included in the study, the average age was 27.56±6.32, 74.1% was female, 35.1% had an associate degree,
62.5% had previously received training on spirituality and 96.3% stated that spirituality needs should be addressed. It was
found that the average of "professional satisfaction" sub-scale score of the nurses participating in the study was 34.10±9.91, the
average burnout sub-scale score was 19.83±6.39, and average empathy exhaustion sub-scale score was 21.50 ± 8.69 according
to the quality of life scale. In line with these data, it was determined that the professional satisfaction of the nurses was high,
the burnout and empathy exhaustion were low. It was determined that the spiritual trends of the nurses was high according to
the average SOI total score (98.83±15.04).
Conclusion
: As a result of the study, it can be said that the quality of life of the nurses is related to occupational satisfaction,
burnout and empathy exhaustion.
Keywords
: Empathy exhaustion, nurse, spiritual orientation, privacy, quality of life.
Biography
Hatice Polat finished PhD in Nursing from Ataturk University in the field of Internal Medicine in 2013. She received the title of Assistant Professor in the same year.
She has conducted research on subject such as reflexology, COPD, cancer, nursing, complementary treatment. Currently, Ataturk University, Faculty of Nursing
is Assistant Professor.
haticeduyar@mynet.comHatice Polat et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061