A secure and prolific health service is of essential significance to any country. The nursing profession is included in the health service and nurses are by far the biggest component of this service sector. Nursing can be perceived as a demanding and psychologically challenging occupation which makes nurses remarkably vulnerable to burnout. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of burnout, pace and amount of work, independence and work engagement on nurses in the Sedibeng area in South Africa, using cross sectional design. This approach may contribute to existing literature on burnout work engagement independence and pace and amount for work. …show more content…
The two dimensions of work engagement included work vigour and dedication. Vigour refers to a positive emotional response to one’s continuous interactions with important elements in one’s occupation or work environment. Dedication refers to experiences of meaning from one’s occupation such as feeling eager or a sense of pride of one’s occupation. Pace and amount of work and burnout respectively recorded five and four components with eigenvalues larger than 1 that explained 67.28% and 59.21% of the variance. The screen test for independence delivered 1 factor and based on the screen test, a one-factor analysis was decided …show more content…
Translation into other languages could have resulted in better feedback. The use of self-report measures could be a limitation as it was the only source of information about predictor and outcome variables. The likely consequence of this is common, method variance in such instances correlations between predictors and outcomes are likely to be overstated. In this study nurses perceptions on concepts such as pace and amount of work, burnout, independence, and work engagement were evaluated and self-reports were the method used most to measure these