[Relationship between nursing burnout, physical environment and professional equipments]

ABSTRACT

Burnout is a syndrome that emerges by mental fatigue and loss of competency. Inappropriate physical Environment and Professional Equipment may cause Burnout in nursing. Therefore this study accomplished by object of detemination of relationship between Burnout and physical Environment and professional equipments. This is a descriptive -analytical corrolational study. The environment of study was medical sciences hospitals and samples were nursing emploees in 1383-84. The research tools were two questionnair including Maslach Burnout Inventory [MBI] consisted of three parts including Emotional exhaustion, dpersonalization and personal achievement. The next, was physical Environment and Professional Equipments questionnair. Total participants were 272 nurses that 43.8% of them had high level of emotional exhaustion, also there were a significant relationship between emotional exhaustion, dpersonalization and physical environment [p burnout and professional equipments desirability. This study indicated that most of the samples had high emotional exhaustion and there were relationship with physical environment and professional equipments. Also there were a reversed relationship between burnout and professional equipments desirability