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A perception of professional problems by nurses

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Kalandyk H., Penar-Zadarko B.
Progress in Health Sciences
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 2
100-109
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Introduction: Professional issues change in different periods of history influenced by emerging conditions in society, and some of them are characterized by universal. Purpose: To examine the problems that professional nurses encounter at work. Materials and methods: The research was conducted with 300 respondents, using the author’s survey questionnaire. Results: Nurses who have completed a secondary medical school degree earn largely the same pay as nurses who have completed a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree (p=0.0003). For the theme of career choice, most respondents (80%) reported their desire to help other people, and 62% considered the work they performed as rather satisfactory. 97,7% considered the low pay as a source of dissatisfaction with nursing (97.7%), 68,7% also pointed an insufficient number of nurses in relation to the number needed, and the health status of patients. Financial security resulted in a feeling of satisfaction (31%). In the workplace 36% of the respondents were mostly disturbed by bureaucracy and formalism, and 34% by the shifting of responsibilities onto nurses by doctors. Daily problems in the workplace were generally connected with health problems (36%), experiencing tension (20%), and reduced motivation to work (19%). The respondents most frequent complaints were about backache (52%), and 87.2% of them were exposed to aggression from patients in the workplace. Conclusions: The main aspect of nursing that elicited a sense of dissatisfaction was the low pay, and a sense of satisfaction was financial security. The professional problems noted by the respondents correlated with health problems, job stress, reduced motivation to work, increasing distance to the employees, and a feeling of dissatisfaction and frustration with the job.
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Perception of the psychosocial working conditions in a group of nurses working in hospitals and primary health care

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Kalandyk H., Penar-Zadarko B., Krajewska-Kułak E.
Progress in Health Sciences
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2016
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vol. 6(2)
100-108
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Introduction: In the nurses group, it is required to have great psychosocial skills, guaranteeing the high quality of professional services. Purpose: To assess the psychosocial working conditions of nurses, depending on their place of employment. Material and methods: The study involved 570 randomly selected nurses. It was based on a diagnostic survey using a standardised questionnaire of Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC). Results: Correlation factors between the overall and average level of satisfaction with the work were quite high – exceed 0.30 and even 0.40. The greater was the need for change, the lower was the job satisfaction. High sense of self-control at work, social support, or wellbeing was linked with better ratings. Psychophysical requirements were assessed as the worst, and the least frequent were the additional requirements resulting from the conflict nature of the job and overload. Nurses from voivodeship hospitals rated their work lower in the category of intellectual demands, and nurses from the Primary Health Care - in the category of requirements resulting from the conflict nature of the job and overload. Behavioural control and the need for change were different for PHC and the other two hospitals. Psychological wellbeing in district hospitals was worse than in the other two types of medical institutions. Conclusions: The larger was the sense of work control, or sense of social support, the higher was the job satisfaction. The higher the level of requirements and the need for change, the lower was the satisfaction of the assessed aspects of work. There were clear differences in the assessment of the psychosocial working conditions of nurses from hospitals and nurses from PHC.
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Nurses’ generalized self-efficacy in relation to their workplace

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Kalandyk H., Penar-Zadarko B., Krajewska-Kułak E.
Progress in Health Sciences
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2016
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vol. 6(2)
92-99
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Introduction: Self-efficacy in nurses appears to be of great importance, and is one of the indicators of behaviour Purpose: Nurses’ self-assessment of their generalized self-efficacy in relation to their workplace. Material and methods: The study involved random sample of 570 nurses. A diagnostic survey was carried out using the standardized Generalized SelfEfficacy Scale (GSES). Results: The average value of self-efficacy amounted to 29.3±30. Among the respondents, 56.8% represented category of “high efficacy”, whereas others were of “average efficacy” (32.3%) and “low efficacy” (10.9%). The overall assessment of the nursing profession was higher in participants who presented higher values on GSES scale (R=0.12). The average general level of satisfaction in terms of 20 aspects of professional work was connected with self-efficacy which proved statistically significant. Analysis of self-efficacy score did not indicate statistically significant differences among workplaces. Conclusion: Over half of the participants represented the category of “high efficacy”. The group of nurses employed in district hospitals presented the least instances of low self-efficacy assessment. Individuals who were satisfied with their nursing professional development opportunities had a higher self-efficacy. The higher the perception of self-efficacy, the higher the workplace satisfaction. The average level of satisfaction resulting from various aspects of nursing profession depended on the perception of selfefficacy in the following areas of assessment: professional development opportunity, decisionmaking autonomy, sense of purpose at work, and, to a lesser extent, occupational safety, maintaining work-life balance, and the possibility of communicating with people.
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