Job Burn Out and Psychological Wellbeing among Female Nurses

Abstract

As per ‘State of the World’s Nursing 2025 Report’ by World Health Organization, nursing workforce is around 29.8 million as of 2023. They are the largest occupational group in the healthcare system across the world. Around 15% are male nurses and 85% of the global nursing workforce are females. The mental health and wellbeing of this largest workforce in the health sector is very important. The present study aimed at assessing the levels of job burn out and psychological wellbeing among female nurses. Data were collected from 300 female nurses who are working in different hospitals in Kerala, India. The Psychological wellbeing scale and Job burn out scale were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics was used. The result indicated that 63.3% of nurses are having job burn out in different levels and 36.7% of nurses are having no job burn out. 34% nurses are having above average psychological wellbeing, 30% are having average psychological wellbeing and 36% nurses have below average psychological wellbeing. The findings indicate the immediate need for implementing interventions to reduce job burn out and to enhance psychological wellbeing.