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

was to investigate relationship among nurses role overload, burnout and managerial coping strategies at Intensive Care Units in Assiut University Hospital

Included all nurses working in Causality, General & Postoperative Intensive Care Units and Coronary Care Unit in Assiut University Hospital:

Four tools which includes Socio-demographic data sheet, role overload questionnaire, managerial coping strategies & burnout questionnaires.

Showed that role overload had highest mean score in General and Casuality ICUs. In addition, coping strategies had highest mean scores of rational problem solving, resigned distancing, and seeking support/ventilation 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.

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 coping strategy not used with role overload.