| Keywords |
Work impairment ; Health problem ; Clinical nurses |
| Abstract |
This study was conducted to measure the severity of health problems by clinical nurses and to find out some variables which affect their work impairments. The self-reported questionnaire survey was peformed at a university hospital in Seoul from January 1 to 30, 2008. Total 460 data were collected and analyzed using SPSS 12.0. The average age of nurses was 33.52. Their average carrier and salary was 9.80 years and 2,938,200 respectively. Most frequent problems were back pain (75.0%) and gastrointestinal problem (52.0%). 42.39% of clinical nurses got experienced both and 15.43% of them got experienced neither. The average of nurses' work impairments was 26.84 out of 50.0 points. It could be explained 31.4% by 5 variables(number of night duty, severity level of health problems1, social environment, age, satisfaction level of salary). In conclusion, it is desirable that work impairment of clinical nurses should be managed efficiently on the basis of the results of assessing the number of night duty, the severity of health problems and perception level of social environment among clinical staffs. |