Nursing Professional’s Work-Life Balance in an Autonomous University Hospital

Abstract

Nursing professional’s quality of life and work-life balance is an important issue at present, since it may be an important cause of nursing professional shortage. This study’s objectives were: (1) To explain the level of nursing professional’s work-life balance; (2) To explain the relationship between the following factors, demographic, social, occupational, and nursing professional’s work-life balance; and (3) To determine factors predicting nursing professional’s work-life balance, in an autonomous university hospital.

This study was a survey research, employing self-administered questionnaire as a data collection instrument, for the sample of 342 nurses.  Data analysis used in this study were as followed: descriptive analysis such as percentage, frequency, average and standard deviation; inferential statistics such as Pearson’s Correlation and Multiple Regression.

Results indicated that more than half of nursing professional in an autonomous university hospital (sample) had a medium level of work-life balance (56.4 %). There were association between social factor (family support), occupational factors (colleagues’ support, strain and work load) and work-life balance.  Social factor (family support) and occupational factors (colleague support, and strain) were the factors predicting work-life balance, for 43.7%.