Determining Quality of Nursing Work-Life and Caring Behavior among Critical Care Nurses
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Objective: The study aims to determine quality of nursing work life and caring behavior among critical care nurse.
Methods and Materials: The study design was descriptive cross-sectional design. The study was conducted on (n=143) nurse work in cardiac care unit, intensive care unit, and respiratory care unit at four hospitals in Iraq. The tools were used to collect data, socio-demographic characteristic, brooks Quality of Nursing Work Life Survey (QNWL), and caring behavior inventory scale (16 item).
Findings: The current study showed 78.3% of nurses reflected that they work with moderate quality of work life, and 81.2 % of nurses have higher level of caring behavior.
Conclusion: Quality of nursing work life has a significant impact on caring behavior, the quality of nursing work life at moderate level and the proportion of nurses who had a high of caring behavior was higher.
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