Current Status of Working Environment and Chronic Fatigue for Nurses in Clinical Care

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Nurses work 23.4 hours of overtime on average per month (Japanese Nursing Association, 2009) , which is 13.2 hours longer than the monthly average for general workers (The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 2013). The purpose of this study is to clarify the current status of the working environment and chronic fatigue for nurses in clinical care. The questionnaire was anonymous and self-administered. The contents of the question are attributes, working environment and chronic fatigue. A total of 1676 female nurses working at 117 diff erent general hospitals located in Japan, participated in our survey. It was found that nurses are not able to fully recover from fatigue and chronic fatigue is likely to accumulate when the following conditions are relevant: they are in their 20s, they work under the working environment with overtime (the time to leave work is irregular) for 20 hours or longer on average per month, or they work on a three-shift pattern. It is necessary to adjust the environment in an organization or society including working structure by paying attention to characteristics of individual fatigue.
弘前大学大学院医学研究科・弘前医学会の論文
2014-04-15