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Burnout among Nurses Working in Surgery and Internal Wards at Selected Hospitals of Ahvaz Mansour Zahiri1, Mohammad Mahboubi 2,3, Mohsen Mohammadi 4,Amineh Khodadadi 5, Seyedeh Hoda Mousavi6*, Amir Jalali7 1
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. Assistant Professor of Health Services Management, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences Ahwaz, Iran. 2 . PH.D. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. 3 .Assistant professor, Abadan College of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Abadan, Iran . 4 .MSc Student Healthcare Management, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. 5 .BS Student in Midwifery, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. .MSc Student of Health Services Management , Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. 7. BSc, MSc, PhD in Nursing Assistant Professor of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty Member of Substance Abuse Prevention Research, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
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[email protected] ABSTRACT: Psychological tensions and job exhaustion can have a negative impact on professional satisfaction and patients caring. The present study is aimed at examining and comparing career exhaustion among nurses working in surgery and internal wards. This is a descriptive study. The questionnaires concerning demographic information were distributed anonymously among 61 nurses working in surgery and internal wards of two hospitals in Ahvaz in the period of July 2008 to Sep 2008. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to measure the burnout. The data was analyzed by SPSS and Chi-squared test, T-test and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) (p
