Some Aspects of Burnout in Nursing Homes

• Authors: Ljiljana Leskovic , Goran Vukovič , Robert Leskovar , Jana Goriup
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Nursing personnel in nursing homes for elderly citizens are exposed to a number of factors that contribute to possible burnout syndrome. For this reason, the set objective of the research was to measure the degree of burnout, check the correlation between the burnout syndrome and satisfaction at work, and psychosomatic symptoms, as well as to figure out the main characteristics of burnout syndrome among the nursing personnel in nursing homes for the elderly in Slovenia.

Keywords

EN

burnout; work satisfaction; psychosomatic symptoms; nursing homes for the elderly; nurses

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Technologica Dubnicae
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 47-62

Dates

published

2016-08-01

online

2016-08-20

Contributors

author

Ljiljana Leskovic

• Faculty of Health Sciences Novo mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia

author

Goran Vukovič

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor Slovenia

author

Robert Leskovar

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor Slovenia

author

Jana Goriup

• Faculty of Health Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/atd-2016-0011