Work stress, perceived organizational support, demographics, and burnout of registered nurses in Nigeria

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Foluso Philip Adekanmbi, Wilfred Ukpere

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This paper intends to examine the work stress, perceived organizational support, demographics, and burnout of registered nurses in Nigeria. Therefore, this paper plans to advocate strategies for reducing burnout within the Nigerian health sector, especially among registered nurses across states in south-western Nigeria. The present paper quantitatively approached the study and adopted a cross-sectional research design. The empirical findings indicated that work stress and perceived organizational support jointly predict burnout, and both showed a substantial independent influence on the burnout of registered nurses across states in south-western Nigeria. This paper also showed that the nurses’ demographics (age, marital status, work unit, and work experience) significantly exhibited the main influence on their burnout. Moreover, this paper established that nurses’ burnout is a factor of their work stress, perceived organizational support, how old they are, their marital status, the unit in which they work, and their work experience. Nonetheless, this study is distinctive, as it further deduced significant relationships among the work stress, perceived organizational support, and demographics of registered nurses in Nigeria. It also significantly contributed to knowledge in terms of appropriate management strategies for reducing work stress and increased organizational support among nurses, reducing burnout in the health sector in Nigeria and precisely among the registered nurses across states in south-western Nigeria. Thus, this paper enumerated the importance of work stress, perceived organizational support, and demographics (age, marital status, work unit, and work experience) on burnout.

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