Home health nurses: Stress, self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction

A survey of home healthcare nurses' perception of work-related stress, self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction during corporate merging found no difference between stress levels of home health nurses compared with acute care surgical nurses, which is contrary to popular belief.

Abstract

A survey of 253 home health care nurses' perceptions of work-related stress, self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction found that stress has a negative correlation with self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction. A positive correlation, however, was found between self-esteem and social intimacy and job satisfaction. Health system administrators, owners, and directors had significantly higher levels of self-esteem, nurses with 5 years or more in their home health nursing position had significantly higher levels of self-esteem. The survey found that nurses with less than a baccalaureate degree possessed significantly lower levels of sociability than those with a graduate or baccalaureate degree. Administrators and managers scored significantly higher on sociability than head nurses.