Perceived stress, coping style and burnout of Chinese nursing students in late-stage clinical practice: A cross-sectional study.

AIM: The aim of this study was to examine the levels of stress, coping style and burnout among Chinese nursing students in late-stage clinical practice and to identify their relationships. BACKGROUND: High stress, passive coping and burnout among nursing students in late-stage clinical practice may contribute to severe psychological consequences. DESIGN: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in November and December 2020. METHODS: Participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Service Survey to examine their stress levels, coping style and burnout. Intention to leave the profession was also assessed. RESULTS: Approximately 36.1 % of nursing students experienced emotional exhaustion and 85.3 % of nursing students perceived themselves to have moderate to high stress levels. A positive coping style can protect nursing students from depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment. High stress and passive coping style predicted emotional exhaustion. Passive coping style and high stress were significant factors leading to intention to quit nursing education before graduation. CONCLUSIONS: Lowering the level of stress and using positive coping behaviors may help students during late internship to mitigate burnout and avoid leaving nursing education. Therefore, nurse educators and clinical nursing mentors need to consider developing strategies and interventions to reduce the decline in nursing students entering nursing education and prevent burnout.

The influence of mobile phone addiction and work procrastination on burnout among newly graduated Chinese nurses.

PURPOSE: The study was conducted to explore the relationship between mobile phone addiction, work procrastination, and burnout among newly graduated nurses. DESIGN AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey involving 220 newly graduated nurses in China was conducted from June to July 2020. FINDINGS: Approximately 60.9% of newly graduated nurses experienced occupational burnout; 72.7% of newly graduated nurses were characterized by moderate or greater procrastination and mobile phone addiction was at a moderate level. Mobile phone addiction and work procrastination were significant factors leading to emotional exhaustion and cynicism. Work procrastination was also an independent predictor of reduced professional efficacy. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Reducing the level of mobile phone addiction and work procrastination among newly graduated nurses might be effective for burnout prevention.

Mobile phone addiction and its association with burnout in Chinese novice nurses: A cross-sectional survey.

AIM: To explore the levels of mobile phone addiction and burnout and their relationships among novice nurses. DESIGN: A cross-sectional investigation design. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to 400 novice nurses in five public hospitals in China. A total of 366 participants completed the survey. Data collected in 2020 were analysed by using descriptive statistics, an independent t test and Pearson's correlation analysis. RESULTS: The results showed that the frequency of nursing adverse events was associated with higher level of mobile phone addiction in novice nurses, and 52.46% of the participants (N = 366) presented a high level of occupational burnout. Moreover, the results indicated that there was a positive correlation between the novice nurses' mobile phone addiction level and burnout (r = .33, p < .01). CONCLUSION: The level of mobile phone addiction may affect nursing adverse events and nurses' burnout. Education on novice nurses' mobile phone use seems necessary to ensure patient safety and burnout prevention. IMPACT: Findings of this study expanded important knowledge about mobile phone addiction and its potential influence on nursing safety and nurse burnout and may place significant implications to staff nurse management and in-service education.

Evaluating Surgical Risk Using FMEA and MULTIMOORA Methods under a Single-Valued Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Environment.

BACKGROUND: Human errors during operations may seriously threaten patient recovery and safety and affect the doctor-patient relationship. Therefore, risk evaluation of the surgical process is critical. Risk evaluation by failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a prospective technology that can identify and evaluate potential failure modes in the surgical process to ensure surgical quality and patient safety. In this study, a hybrid surgical risk-evaluation model was proposed using FMEA and multiobjective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis plus full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA) method under a single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic environment. This work aimed to determine the most critical risk points during the surgical process and analyze corresponding solutions. METHODS: A team for FMEA was established from domain experts from different departments in a hospital in Hunan Province. Single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers (SVTNNs) were used to evaluate potential risk factors in the surgical process. Cmprehensive weights combining subjective and objective weights were determined by the best-worst method and entropy method to differentiate the importance of risk factors. The SVTNN-MULTIMOORA method was utilized to calculate the risk-priority order of failure modes in a surgical process. RESULTS: The hybrid FMEA model under the SVTNN-MULTIMOORA method was used to calculate the ranking of severity of 21 failure modes in the surgical process. An unclear diagnosis is the most critical failure in the surgical process of a hospital in Hunan Province. CONCLUSION: The proposed model can identify and evaluate the most critical potential failure modes of the surgical process effectively. In addition, such a model can help hospitals to reduce surgical risk and improve the safety of surgery.