Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep quality, fatigue, resilience and nursing performance ability of shift work nurses.

Data were collected for 10 days from September 10 to 19, 2018, among 197 clinical nurses employed by a general hospital having more than 300 beds in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. Data analysis methods were SPSS 23.0 programs.

The sleep quality score of shift work nurses was 8.03, Fatigue 4.29, Resilience 2.36, Nursing Performance Ability 3.53. Statistically significant correlation was found between sleep quality and fatigue (r=.430, p<.001), sleep quality and resilience (r=-.293, p<.001), fatigue and resilience (r=-.262, p<.001), and resilience and nursing performance ability (r=.544, p<.001) in shift work nurses.

This study is meaningful in the suggestion that it is necessary to increase shift work nurses’ sleep quality and reduce their fatigue in order to improve their nursing performance ability, and to develop a desirable work type model.