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Relation between Organizational Compassion and Work Engagement among Nurses at Health Care Organizations

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Nursing Administration

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Background: Compassion and work engagement are essential to healthcare organizations and have a good effect on medical facilities, patients, and healthcare practitioners. To ascertain whether a relationship exists that could be advantageous to the healthcare organization, the possible relationship between work engagement and compassion should be investigated. Aim: To explore the relation between organizational compassion and work engagement among nurses in healthcare organizations. Subjects and Method: The current study used a descriptive correlational research design. 265 out of the 413 nurses employed on Damietta General Hospital and Heartand Digestive System Institute at all units of the hospitals' during the study's duration.. Along with a questionnaire on personal and clinical factors, two measures were used to gather data: the job engagement scale and the organizational compassion scale, in addition to personal and job characteristics questionnaire. Results:The study showed that whereas 1.1% of the nurses tested reported having a low opinion of organizational compassion, more than half (53.6%) of the the studied nurses had a moderate perspective. 60.8% of respondents reported being highly engaged at work, compared to 0.4% who reported being lowly engaged. Additionally, a positive statistically significant difference was discovered between the overall ratings of work engagement and organizational compassion perception. Conclusion: Work engagement and overall organizational compassion perception scores exhibited a statistically significant positive correlation. Recommendations: It is advised that nurses' compassion and level of work involvement be routinely assessed and monitored. Creating a motivating work environment and strengthening the nurses' perception of organizational compassion.

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2024.290256.1302

Keywords

Nurses, Organizational Compassion, work engagement

Authors

First Name

amal

Last Name

mahmoud

MiddleName

sobhy

Affiliation

Prof. of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, faculty of nursing,port-said university

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sunmoonstars25@yahoo.com

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First Name

Sanaa

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

Abdel-Azeem

Affiliation

Nursing administration- Faculty of Nursing- Port Said University

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sanaaahmed4@gmail.com

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First Name

Nora

Last Name

Taha

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Affiliation

Nursing administration, faculty of Nursing, Port Said University

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norataha36@gmail.com

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Volume

11

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2

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48277

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-05-16

Publish Date

2024-06-30

Page Start

341

Page End

362

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2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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357,311

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866

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/

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Relation between Organizational Compassion and Work Engagement among Nurses at Health Care Organizations

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24 Dec 2024