2020 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 110-115
We investigated how the directors of the nursing division feel and care about nurses not using the child-raising and care support system. The subjects are 142 nurse administrators from hospitals adopting a shift-work system. The method is a postal questionnaire survey. Survey contents are；basic attributes, the status regarding the promotion of work-life balance (WLB), and factors that may increase the work burden of nurses as well as measures to reduce their burden. Descriptive statistics were performed using SPSS ver.23. In addition, one-way analysis of variance was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the presence or absence of the staff's work burden perceived by the nurse administrators and the number of hospital beds；and that of nurses, the presence or absence of groups promoting WLB, and approaches to WLB.
This study was conducted with the approval of the ethics committee of Okayama Nursing Association. A total of 116 responses were obtained with a response rate of 82%. The nurse administrators considered that “frequent night-shift work, overtime work, working on holidays, sudden shift change, and an increased workload” might increase the work burden on nurses. They also considered that a “sudden shift change” and “participation in a committee” increased the staff's work burden in hospitals with low number of beds and nurses, respectively. We must deal with issues, such as the “reform of the committee”, “reduction of the staff's work burden in small-to middle-scale institutions”, and “further promotion of WLB in order to help nurses continue working in large-scale institutions”.
