These are all essential in today’s political and societal health care environment with growing shifts and disconnects in patients’ care, and the need for availability of human, material and financial resources required in meeting the health care needs. CNR often involve patient-oriented research, epidemiologic and behavioural studies, outcomes and health services research. Keywords: Hospice employees, Job Demands-Resource Model, compassion satisfaction, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and deaths experienced.ĪBSTRACT Abstract This paper aimed at highlighting the importance of Clinical Nursing Research (CNR) in the professional development of Nursing. These findings have implications for future research on the importance of understanding how the number of patient deaths relates to the hospice employees’ psychological impact, to maintain hospice employees, and ensure quality of care for years to come.
The lack of correlation between number of deaths experienced and levels of compassion satisfaction and levels of secondary traumatic stress suggests hospice employees generally acquire satisfaction from their work and have natural mechanisms to avoid reliving the patient’s life experiences. Overall, the results indicate that as deaths experienced increased, burnout tends to increase. The results of the bivariate correlation indicated the number of deaths individual hospice employees experience have no significant correlation on compassion satisfaction (r = -0.124, p >.05) and secondary traumatic stress (r = -0.005, p >.05), but has a positive and significant correlation on burnout (r = 0.261, p <. Spearman Correlation were computed to test the hypotheses. Data were collected via SurveyMonkey® from 117 hospice employees (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nursing assistants or certified nursing assistants, social workers, and chaplains) from for-profit and not-for-profit hospice companies across the United States. The theoretical framework included the Job Demands-Resource Model.
This correlational quantitative research investigated to what extent, if any, a correlation between reported compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress of individual hospice employees and the number of patient deaths experienced in a 14-day period.
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