The investigation of the healthy work environment in emergency departments in tertiary hospitals of Guangdong province / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the health status of nurses in emergency departments in tertiary hospitals of Guangdong province.Methods Fourteen tertiary hospitals were selected by using convenience sampling method,and 382 emergency nurses were chose by cluster sampling and their healthy work environment was evaluated by using Essentials of Magnetism Ⅱ scale(EOM Ⅱ).All the participants were asked to finished the Essentials of Magnetism Ⅱ scale.Results The healthy work environment in the tertiary hospitals' emergency departments in Guangdong had higher score than the magnet hospitals in America,but lower job satisfaction and nursing quality.There were significant differences in different shift and education of the emergency nurses.The job satisfaction and nursing quality could influence the healthy work environment.Conclusion The healthy work environment in tertiary hospitals' emergency departments of Guangdong province is good,but the job satisfaction and nursing quality is low.