Level of Burns and Job Satisfaction of Oncology Nurses: Adana Case

Nurses working in oncology units often have to work with patients with severe health problems. From the diagnosis of cancer to the loss of the patient, the process includes various difficulties not only for the patient and his / her family but also for the nursing nurses. These challenges include making critical decisions for the patient, managing treatments with serious side effects, patients' anger and non-compliance problems, monitoring patients suffering from pain and suffering, intra-team conflicts, and the care and death of terminal-term patients. Our study was carried out as descriptive to determine job satisfaction and burnout levels of oncology nurses. Our study was carried out with the participation of 72 nurses who work in oncology and hematology departments of two university hospitals and one state hospital in Adana city center. In our study, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Business Satisfaction Scale were used. According to the results of the study, the mean age of nurses was 31.2 ± 8.4, 56.9% were married, 48.6% were bachelor's degree, and 16.7% were oncology nursing. It was determined that Burnout Scale experienced high level of depletion in nurses (27.89 ± 6.54 points), desensitization (D) sub-dimension (12.53 ± 4.71 points) in the subscale of emotional exhaustion (PD), and low level burnout in personal achievement (BP) sub-dimension. The mean satisfaction score of the job satisfaction scale was 36.19 ± 9.88, and the mean score of external satisfaction was 21.64 ± 6.26. As a result, it can be said that nurses experience high levels of burnout, but because they think they are beneficial to others, they experience personal sense of accomplishment and moderate job satisfaction