Nurses' perceived and actual caregiving roles: identifying factors that can contribute to job satisfaction

Abstract

It is important to identify factors that could explain resilience to compassion fatigue because compassion fatigue has negative consequences not only for nurses themselves but for the patients in their care.

Job satisfaction among registered nurses in two Scandinavian acute care hospitals

“…Previous studies have also reported discrepancies between management expectations and the care given by nurses. Nurses have previously reported that they do not receive sufficient support from the management and that their opinions are not valued (Kaddourah et al., ; Morrison & Korol, ; Pin‐Pin Choi, Cheung, & Mei‐Che Pang, ). Moreover, RNs in this study reported that, at times, they are dissatisfied with the chances for career development.…”

The quality of work life of registered nurses in Canada and the United States: a comprehensive literature review

“…These concepts include: missing nursing care, perceptions of staff, monitoring, patient advocacy, role conflict with management, patient death and suffering, violence, dealing with patients' families, feelings of powerlessness, physical distress, and moral conflict. [23][24][25] Sources of coping with stress were also explored including: caring, helping families, relationships with colleagues, and job satisfaction.…”

Delivering best care and maintaining emotional wellbeing in the intensive care unit: the perspective of experienced nurses

“…The purpose of Morrison and Korol's study was to compare the type of care nurses expect to provide, to identify when and whether disconnect in expectations led to compassion fatigue. The authors proposed a job satisfaction model where upon perceiving control and optimal challenge from a work environment, nurses derive reward, feel energetic and these feelings strengthen commitment to their job (Morrison & Korol, 2014). In contrast, the authors describe compassion fatigue, empathetically engaging with patients and integrating the emotions of fear, grief and loss, when nurses experience time/resource constraints and role conflict.…”

“…Nurses frequently focused on caring for patients, the happiness and satisfaction which promoted their emotional wellbeing. Morrison and Korol (2014) investigated actual and perceived caring roles of nurses in a grounded theory study of nine Canadian nurses. Overwhelmingly, nurses were focused on providing care that was "in the patients' best interest".…”