BURNOUT IN NURSE FACULTY: RELATIONSHIP TO JOB SATISFACTION AND SELF IDENTIFIED JOB RELATED STRESSORS.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Administration.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The importance of investigating burnout, job satisfaction and job related stressors in nurse educators stemmed from a shortage of nurses to a shortage of nurse faculty. The purpose of this study was to examine levels of burnout and job satisfaction, to determine the relationship between burnout and job satisfaction in nurse educators and to have faculty identify job related activities perceived as excessive stress producers. The sample included 82 nurse educators from three university health science center associated schools of nursing.

A descriptive research design was utilized with data collection being accomplished through a mailed four part questionnaire. The demographic and background questionnaire provided biographical data and frequency of work related activities. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Educator Form measured levels of burnout based on the subscales of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment. The Job Descriptive Index determined job satisfaction in six areas including work on present job, present pay, opportunities for promotion, supervision on present job, people in present job and job in general. The self perceived excessive job related stressors section consisted of open ended questions that allowed nurse faculty to identify work activities associated as being excessive stress producers.

On the MBI subscales, the mean scores of nurse educators fell within the moderate range of experienced burnout. With job satisfaction, moderate to high satisfaction was experienced by the majority of subjects in five subscales while low satisfaction was reflected in the present pay subscale. The Pearson r correlation demonstrated that as burnout increased job satisfaction decreased. Combined high burnout scores and low job satisfaction scores were reflected by 34 percent of the sample. Some demographic variables were significantly correlated to some subscales but all reflected a weak relationship. The identified numbers of stressors increased as burnout increased and job satisfaction decreased. The categories of administration, academic consideration and workload had the greatest number of identified excessive stress producers. Faculty assignment, administrative attitudes and multiple job dimensions were the three most frequently occurring stressor subheadings. It was concluded that burnout and job satisfaction are not only unique entities existing in nurse faculty but also have interactive facets.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-02, Section: B, page: 0747.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1992.

School code: 0227.