FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN PERASAAN KELELAHAN KERJA PERAWAT RUANG RAWAT INAP [FACTORS RELATED TO INPATIENT NURSES' WORK FATIGUE]

Nurses are medical personnel who provide nursing care to patients. Nurses need extra energy in doing work, so they are prone to fatigue. The data of unstructured interviews revealed that eight out of ten nurses experienced work fatigue. These nurses found it to be easily anxious, angry, and difficult to concentrate. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between age, gender, years of service, work shifts, nutritional status, and health conditions with feelings of work fatigue in inpatient nurses. The study used a descriptive quantitative method with a population of 70 inpatient nurses. Total sampling technique was utilized, resulting in 70 respondents. The research has indeed considered and passed the research ethics. The study used a standardized questionnaire to measure the feelings of work fatigue. Based on the chi-square statistical test, it was found that there was no relationship between gender, length of work, work shifts and health conditions with feelings of work fatigue, where the p-value of each factor was > 0.05. While the statistical test for age and nutritional status factors using the Spearman Rank correlation test showed that there was no relationship between age and feelings of work fatigue, with a value of significance 0.682 > 0.05. Furthermore, there was a relationship between nutritional status and feelings of work fatigue, with a value of significance 0.025 < 0.05. Qualitative research needs to be carried out further to be able to see in more detail the factors that influence feelings of burnout.