Gambaran Tingkat Kelelahan Kerja Perawat di Ruang Perawatan Intensif

Abstract

Intensive care nurses have heavy duties and responsibilities that make the nurse’s workload heavy. The heavy workload of nurses in the intensive care unit can lead to nurses’ work fatigue. Nurses’ work fatigue can cause drowsiness, difficulty concentrating and physical fatigue, such as dizziness that can impact on patient care. The purpose of this research was to know the description of nurses’ workload level in the intensive care room. This research used quantitative descriptive survey, with the research instrument in the front of a questionnaire of subjective self rating test from industrial fatigue research committee Japan. Sampling technique that has been used was total sampling. Respondents in this study were 81 in the intensive care room of K.R.M.T Wongsonegoro and Tugurejo Hospital. The result revealed that the majority of respondents were 63,4% experienced working fatigue in the medium level, 23,5 experienced heavy level, and 13,6% experienced mild level. Work fatigue experienced by drowsiness, yawning, wanting to lie down, insecurity, tends to forget things, lack of patience, dizziness, and feel thirsty. This result suggest for nurses to maximize work self-motivation and management such as, coping stress management and time management. It is recommended for hospital to routinely implement existing refreshing programs such as picnics at least once a year.