Evaluation of the Working Environment of the Nurses Working in a University Hospital

• Published in: Sağlık ve hemşirelik yönetimi dergisi (online) 2021-08, Vol.8 (2), p.203-213
• Main Authors: Handan Alan, Şehrinaz Polat, Hanife Tiryaki Şen, Tuğba Öztürk Yıldırım
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: nurse; university hospital; work environment
• ISSN: 2149-018X
• DOI: 10.5222/SHYD.2021.92905

INTRODUCTION: This study was carried out to determine the perceptions of nurses working in a university hospital about the working environment. METHODS: The universe of this descriptive study consists of 853 nurses working in a university hospital. The sample of the study was included 598 nurses who agreed to participate in the study. The rate of participation in the research is 70.10%. The data were collected with the Personal Information Form, Nursing Work Index-The Practice Work Environment Scale. In the evaluation of the data, one-way ANOVA, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to evaluate the difference between frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, independent variables, and Tukey HSD test and Benferonni Corrected Mann Whitney U test were used to determine which group the difference originated from. RESULTS: Nursing Work Index-The Practice Work Environment Scale mean score was found to be 2.56 +- 0.57. It was determined that the nurses 'perception of the working environment was influenced by the nurses' age, marital status, education level, duration of work in the institution, duration of professional experience, position and the unit they work in. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: IIn this study, it was found that nurses evaluated the working environment at a intermediate. It was determined that the nurses' perception of the working environment: was influenced by age, marital status, education level, working time in the institution, professional experience duration, management duty status and the unit they work in.