title: Professional burnout, stress and job satisfaction of nursing staff at a university hospital.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to describe the social and work characteristics of the nursing staff at a tertiary hospital in the Public Health Service of Andalucía, to assess the degree of professional professional burnout and job satisfaction of those professionals and to study the possible relation between the professional burnout variables and the stress and job satisfaction levels on the one hand and social and employment variables on the other.
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive and cross-sectional study in a sample of 258 baccalaureate and auxiliary nurses. As research instruments, an original and specific questionnaire was used to collect social and employment variables, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Nursing Stress Scale and the Font-Roja questionnaire. Descriptive, inferential statistics and multivariate analysis were applied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  average scores were found for professional stress and satisfaction, corresponding to 44,23 and 65,46 points, respectively. As regards professional burnout, an average score was found on the emotional exhaustion subscale; a high score for depersonalization and a low score for professional accomplishment. Studies are needed to identify the scores on these subscales in health organizations and to produce knowledge on their interrelations.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, ES.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Portero de la Cruz
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, ES.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaquero Abellán
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D057566:Self Report; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*