The Relationship Between Compassion Fatigue, Perceived Nurse Managers' Caring Behaviours, and Nurse-Friendly Hospital...

One of the adverse effects on nurses is compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue, which consists of job burnout and secondary traumatic stress, is known to be caused by physical and mental health problems. To improve the working conditions of nurses by nurse managers gained importance by recognising their compassion fatigue.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between compassion fatigue levels of staff nurses and their perceptions of nurse managers' caring behaviours and the nurse-friendly hospital criteria approaches.

A descriptive study design was used following the STROBE checklist in this study.

This descriptive study was conducted using an online survey with 441 staff nurses between August 2021 and February 2022. Data were collected using a personal information form, Nurse-Friendly Hospital Criteria Evaluation Scale, the Caring Assessment Tool-Administration and the Compassion Fatigue-Short Scale.

As nurses' perceptions of nurse-friendly hospital criteria increased, their compassion fatigue levels decreased (r = -0.282, p = 0.000) and their perceived nurse manager's caring behaviours became more positive (r = 0.446, p = 0.000).

The study found that nurses have positive nurse-friendly hospital criteria experience lower levels of compassion fatigue, as well as lower levels of job burnout and secondary traumatic stress scores in the sub-dimensions. It was also found that their perceptions of caring behaviours from nurse managers were more positive.