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CompletedNCT03110536

The Burnout Syndrome in Emergency Department Triage Nurses

Sindromul de Burnout la asistenții Medicali de Triaj Din unitățile de Primire urgențe

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
56 (actual)
Sponsor
Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Assessment of burnout syndrome of triage nurses from Emergency Departments from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTCopenhagen Burnout InventoryA 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.
OTHERTriage scoring efficacyThe 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).

Timeline

Start date
2017-04-15
Primary completion
2017-06-15
Completion
2017-09-30
First posted
2017-04-12
Last updated
2018-08-07

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Romania

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