ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the status quo of job-family and family-job conflicts among the nursing of the operating room nurses.Method A total of 190 nurses from an operating room participated in the survey by demographic questionnaire and work-family conflict scale.Results The average score on job-family was (3.15 ± 0.48) and there were significant differences between family-job conflict and job-family (2.75 ± 0.27 vs.3.55 ± 0.61) (t =-10.349,P＜0.05).There were significant differences in job-family conflict scores (P ＜0.05) in view of different age,working years,professional titles,number of night shifts per month,marital status and daily working hours.There were significant differences in family-job conflict subscale scores (P＜0.05).Conclusions The job-family conflicts of the nurses in the operating room is at the middle level.The perceived job-family conflict is higher than that of the family-job conflict.Such factors as age,length of work,professional tide,number of night shifts per month,marital status and daily working hours can lead to job-family conflict among the operating room nurses.The nursing administrative should displace nursing personnel and optimize the shifts so as to reduce the rate of job-family conflicts.