Analysis of Work Life Balance of Female Nurses in Hospitals - Comparative Study between Government and Private Hospital in Chennai, TN., India

Lakshmi, K. Santhana; Ramachandran, T.; Boohene, David

doi:10.7763/ijtef.2012.v3.202

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“…The role of nurses has expanded into multi-tasking, and nurses are the first ones who are thought of in the health care industry. It is necessary that their needs be addressed because their job content and satisfaction are absolutely important [12]. Sleutel noted that the nursing practice environment was really just one set of related concepts that had been described as "organizational factors that influenced nursing practice" [27].…”

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“…Identifying the barriers and looking for possible solutions are important issues to deal with if the current nursing shortages are to be resolved. The role of nurses has expanded and the demands on nurses have increased [11,12], so setting priorities has become a major challenge faced worldwide by health plan decision-makers with limited resources [13]. The magnet hospital concept presents itself as a possible solution to the challenge of nursing shortages [10]; however, previous research has focused primarily on provider and patient correlations with magnet hospital characteristics, and less on the identification of an organizational social structure that would promote its development and maintenance [14].…”

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Strategic management in the establishment of a magnet hospital: A nursing staff perspective

Yang¹,

Yu²,

Wang³

2013

Health

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Magnet hospital certification has a reputation for being one solution to nurse recruitment and retention. It is a matter of priority for hospitals to identify and enhance the basic organizational social structures which promote the development and maintenance of magnetism. A total of 436 valid self-administered questionnaires were collected from nurses. Paired sample t-tests, importance-performance gap analysis andANO-VAwere applied. The aims of this study were to investigate the key factors in and the gaps between nurses’ perceptions and hospital performance in areas contributing to magnetism. The results showed that Salary structure, welfare, and manpower deployment were the key forces of magnetism influencing nursing practice. Public and private hospitals showed significant differences in manpower deployment and nurse-patient relationships. Nurses who rotated shifts were more dissatisfied with their hospital scheduling system. Therefore, personnel policies and program are the primary forces in the development of a magnet hospital. Considering the demand for flexible scheduling of nurses, providing a supportive work environment, and keeping pace with today’s changing health care environment could achieve better outcomes for nurses, patients, and hospitals. These findings provide a reference to help set priorities for the implementation and development of effective strategies with limited resources. Public hospitals should take the lead in promoting magnet hospitals and set up reasonable salary systems, nursing workforce standards, and administrative support in order to attract and effectively retain nurses.

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Strategic management in the establishment of a magnet hospital: A nursing staff perspective

Yang¹,

Yu²,

Wang³

2013

Health

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“…Nathani and Jha (10) explored some of the factors influencing WLB namely, ageing population, emergence of service sector industries, technological advancement of work, skill shortages, and loss of social support network, globalisation and demographic shift of workforce. Lakshmi, Ramachandran and Boohene (11) identified the issues connected with work life balance of female nurses in government and private hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India and the results also indicated that both government and private hospital nurse"s work life balance is a challengeable one. The study suggested that government and private hospital management eed to be conscious of the status of female nurses and periodically review their work and personal life satisfaction.…”

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A Study of Gender Differences in the Perception of Work Life Balance

Mulik¹

2017

IJEMS

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Work life balance has been the subject of much discussion all over the world among people of all ages. With increased work challenges, the stress levels are beginning to rise for almost everyone. It has become an emerging issue in health care industry as it is affecting the efficiency of men and women employees. This paper addresses work-life balance across genders. The main focus of the study was men and women employees working in hospitals. A sample of 115 nurses and doctors and other staff was taken. The purpose of this study is to find out the gender differences in the perception of work life balance and to find out the factors that will help employees in maintaining work-life balance. In the study, work and family related variables were identified and analysed with the help of Chi square test. The study concludes that men and women genders have strong belief that flexible working hours will enhance the work life balance. Work has an adverse effect on both men and women, as it affected their health and even their sleep. The analysis of spill over of work into family life showed that both men and women did not have enough time to spend with their families and moreover work pressures affected quality the of family life. Both genders opinion that a positive work environment is needed to work life balance.

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“…Another Indian study by Lakshmi, et al of Chennai, showed that a majority of nurses are working through-out week and 53% are struggling to achieve work-life balance. [14] They also made comparisons between nurses from the public and private set-up. In a study by Gulavani, et al, at Karad, Maharashtra, a majority of 100 nurses reported there is frequent occurrence of stress associated with Uncertainty by concerning treatment (49%), dealing with patient and families (48%), workload (59%), conflict with doctors (49%), death and dying (50%), conflict with supervisors (52%), where as inadequate emotional preparation (68%), discrimination (48%), conflict with peers (53%) as occasionally stress inducing causes as reported by nurses.…”

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Health Status and Stress Levels of Nurses Working In a Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai

Kini¹,

Pathan²,

Asgaonkar³

2016

AIMDR

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Background: Nurses are a vital component of our healthcare system. Their health would directly affect the delivery of healthcare to our patients. We designed a study to look at the health status and stress levels of staff nurses in our hospital. Methods: After ethics committee approval, we enrolled 100 staff nurses working at Topiwala National Medical College & BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire with questions pertaining to their age, years of working experience and time taken to travel to work, and past medical history was administered. A brief clinical examination, routine investigations were performed. Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) was administered. Results: Maximum respondents were in the age group of 41 to 50 years, majority of them had an experience of 15-20 years working in this hospital. When asked about their preferred choice of contraceptive, tubectomy was the most common response (49.5%). 3% were suffering from asthma , 12% had tuberculosis at some point in time and 8% had needle-stick injury. Their past medical history gave us an insight into various medical conditions they were suffering from. As per Cohen's Perceived Stress scale, 88% of the nurses were under stress. Though all those with diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma and anaemia as well as greater proportion of those with complicated pregnancies and obesity, were under stress, we could not document statistically significant relationship between perceived stress scores and the above. Conclusion: This study gives us data about the health status of nurses working in our hospital. A high proportion of the staff nurses were stressed out. Future research should focus on effective interventions to reduce the stress levels amongst nurses.

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Analysis of Work Life Balance of Female Nurses in Hospitals - Comparative Study between Government and Private Hospital in Chennai, TN., India

Cited by 18 publications

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Strategic management in the establishment of a magnet hospital: A nursing staff perspective

Strategic management in the establishment of a magnet hospital: A nursing staff perspective

A Study of Gender Differences in the Perception of Work Life Balance

Health Status and Stress Levels of Nurses Working In a Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai

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