Assessment of burnout syndrome of triage nurses from Emergency Departments from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
This study is aiming at assessing the burnout syndrome amongst triage nurses working in the Emergency Departments in Cluj-Napoca. The study design is observational, prospective and multicentric. At this moment, there are 43 nurses covering triage shifts in the Emergency Clincial County Hospital Cluj and 18 more within Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children Cluj-Napoca. On average, these ED roughly attend 90.000 patients yearly. Questionnaires are based on Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, with additional clinical cases that require triage coding according to The Romanian National Triage Protocol of 2016. Each triage nurse will complete the questionnaire when beginning the triage shift and after a period of 2, 4 or 6 hours.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
56
A questionnaire based on Copenhagen Burnout Inventory will be completed by each participant to the study, at the beginning of the triage shift and after 2, 4 or 6 hours. The questionnaire also contains clinical cases that require triage coding.
The triage scores of the first 5 and the last 5 cases assessed by the investigated nurse will be compared with the triage codes of an expert evaluator (nurse involved in designing The National triage Protocol).
Emergency County Hospital for Children
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Emergency Clinical County Hospital Cluj-Napoca - Emergency Department
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Assessment of burnout syndrome in triage ED nurses
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
Time frame: 2 to 6 hours
Efficacy of triage ED nurses
The triage scores of the first 5 and the last 5 cases assessed by the investigated nurse will be compared with the diagnostic codes of the physicians who treated those patients.
Time frame: 2 to 6 hours
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