Assessment of the Critical Care Work Environment of Intensive Care Unit Nurses in Saudi Arabia

Nurses play a major role in the delivery of complex and challenging critical care in intensive care units (ICUs). Assessment of work environment is essential indicators of hospital management and can be applied to workforce planning and identifying nursing profession needs. The American Association...

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Published in:Risk management and healthcare policy 2022-01, Vol.15, p.2413-2420
Main Authors: Ageel, Mohammed, Shbeer, Abdullah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Decision making
Environmental assessment
Evidence-based medicine
Hospitals
Intensive care
Medical care
Nurses
Nursing
nursing practice
Original Research
Patient safety
Quality management
Saudi Arabia
Work environment
Workers
Working conditions
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Summary:Nurses play a major role in the delivery of complex and challenging critical care in intensive care units (ICUs). Assessment of work environment is essential indicators of hospital management and can be applied to workforce planning and identifying nursing profession needs. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recognized six standards for a healthy work environment and developed the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT). The aim of this study was to assess the work environment of ICU nurses in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. This cross-sectional study was conducted at public and private hospitals. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire that included the sociodemographic characteristics and the AACN HWEAT. Data were analyzed to obtain descriptive and inferential statistics. The Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were employed to compare demographic data, on the basis of the overall mean HWEAT score. The study participants were 238 ICU nurses, who were predominantly female (83%). The mean overall HWEAT score was 3.55±1.03, which is within the "good" range, and was higher for male nurses (3.66), nurses aged ≥41 years (3.76), and nurses with postgraduate education (4.04), work experiences of >10 years (3.63), and alternate work shifts (3.6). Nurses in private hospitals had significantly higher overall scores than nurses in public hospitals (3.83 vs 3.19, P
ISSN:1179-1594
1179-1594
DOI:10.2147/RMHP.S391698