The motivation of this study was to investigate how role overload, role conflict and role ambiguity of nurses relate to burnout and the relationship of nurses’ efficacy to these three stressors and burnout in private hospitals. Patients in private hospitals incur higher expenditure with expectations for better care. Stressors serve as impediments in nursing care and burnout has deleterious effect, high self efficacy can mediate in the effects of stressors and burnout.
Methods:
Study has been carried out on nurses in three large private hospitals of Kolkata through set of instruments-Organizational Role Stress (Udai Pareek) to assess role conflict, overload and ambiguity, Oldenburg Burnout Inventory to assess the disengagement and exhaustion and Nursing Role Efficacy Scale (Udai Pareek) to assess role efficacy. Data have been analyzed through correlation and regression analysis.
Results:
According to the nurses’ view, the findings are as follows:
Increase in role overload, role conflict, role ambiguity leads to an enhancement in disengagement, exhaustion.
Enhancement in self efficacy leads to a reduction in role overload, role conflict, role ambiguity, and disengagement, exhaustion.
Conclusion:
For better patient care Health care Managers may try to reduce the stressors and enhance efficacy of the nurses, some practical suggestions have been made in these regard.
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