Aim: To elucidate the orientation of burnout prevention in line with the experience level of nurses by examining the impact of organisational climate on burnout by nursing experience level.
Background: While the relationship between a nurse and the organisation where they work changes depending on the nurse's experience level, there is a dearth of research that takes into account the nursing experience level in exploring the relationship between organisational climate and burnout.
Method: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,102 nurses. Nursing experience was divided into six levels. Two scales for organisational climate and the Maslach burnout inventory were used.
Results: There were effects between the organisational climate and exhaustion/depersonalization, depending on the experience level. Novices with low scores for head nurses' considerations towards staff felt the highest level of emotional exhaustion. For advanced beginners, a sense of control significantly determined emotional exhaustion.
Conclusions: There was a difference in the relationship between organisational climate and burnout in experience level, suggesting different intervention directions.
Implications for nursing management: There is a direction of intervention suitable for each experience level, suggesting the need to respond to each accordingly.
Keywords: burnout; nurse experiment; organisational climate.
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