Perceived Faculty Support and Burnout among Students' of Nursing Faculty

Abstract

Nursing education is considered as one of the most crucial element for improving the quality of professional identity of future nurses. Students face situations related to their profession and academic development that may be assessed as stressors. Burnout among students in the area of health, specially nursing students and the levels of burnout found are alarming. Faculty members as gatekeepers to the profession are in a very influential position in regards to the future career of their students. The aim of this research was to investigate relationship between perceived faculty support and burnout among faculty nursing students. Setting: The study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Beni-suef University. Subjects: 334 baccalaureate nursing students. Tools: three tools were used for data collection. The first tool predesigned questionnaire includes (personal characteristics). The second tool was Perceived Faculty Support Scale (PFS). The third tool: Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS). Results: Findings of the present study revealed that nursing students have high perception among burnout and faculty support and there is high statistically significant correlation between mentioned two variables as p-value <0.000**. Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a positive statistically significant correlation between total faculty support and total burnout among faculty nursing students. Recommendations: There should be a collaborative effort among academic staff members to remove unnecessary stressors and provide a supportive learning environment.