Relationship among Nurses Role Overload, Burnout and Managerial Coping Strategies at Intensive Care Units

Work life takes up an important place in human life, and an employee faces many stimuli from internal and external environments and is affected by them in a positive or negative way. Aim: was to investigate relationship among nurses role overload, burnout and managerial coping strategies at Intensive Care Units in Assiut University Hospital. Design: A correlational descriptive design was used. Setting: Four Intensive Care Units in Assiut University Hospital Subjects: Included all nurses working in Causality, General& Postoperative Intensive Care Units and Coronary Care Unit in Assiut University Hospital. Tools: Four tools which includes Socio-demographic data sheet, role overload questionnaire, managerial coping strategies & burnout questionnaires. Results: Showed that role overload had highest mean score in General and Casuality ICUs. In addition, coping strategies highest mean scores of rational problem solving , resigned distancing, and seeking support/ventilation were in Casuality and post operative ICUs respectively except passive wishful thinking had highest mean scores in General and Casuality ICUs respectively. Also, burnout had highest mean scores in post operative and general ICU respectively. Burnout had positive relations with managerial coping strategies with a highly statistically significant differences. While, there were no relation between role overload & burnout and role overload & coping strategies. Conclusions: Nurses employed at ICUs in Assiut University Hospital reported high burnout and use managerial coping strategies as rational problem solving, resigned distancing, seeking support/ventilation and passive wishful thinking to handle burnout and role overload except passive wishful thinking not used with role overload.