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CORRELATION BETWEEN OCCUPATION STRESS IN NURSES AT INTENSIVE CARE UNIT WITH JOB BURNOUT

A correlation study was conducted to investigate the degree of stress experienced by nurses with their exhustion in intensive units of Yazd hospitals . Since the population of the study consisted of a limited number of nurses , all the 24 persons were included in the sample . The tool was a three part questionnaire- The first part provided some demographic information , the second part measured role producted stress using osipow and co-workers , occupational stress inventory and the third part was concerned with the intensity and frequency of exhustion according to rnaslach and jacksonʹs burnout inventory . The finding revealed that the majority of nurses experinenced a normal degree in five aspects of role producted stress ( role overload, role insufficiency , role ambiguity , role responsibiltiy and role boundar ) but the stress experienced of role environment was higher than others. Also ,_. the nursese experienced moderate degree of emotional exhaustion depersonalization and personal accomplishment . In additon , certain background variables like age, sex and marital status and education was correlated between marital status and personal accomplishment . Regarding correlation between work environment producted stress and burnout there were significant correlation between ( role boundary and role responsibility and role ambiguity) with emotional exhaustion of burnout . There was a significant correlation between role induced stress and emotional exhaustion aspect of burnout. It is recommended that more attention be paid to assess the nurses working in intensive care units for emotional exhaustion .