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Background: : Nursing workload, staffing stress, organizational leadership support, and patient care demands in the workplace could either positively or negatively affect the wellness of nurses. Organizational resources to support nurses in the workplace could function as protective factors.
Objective: The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between nursing workload, staffing stress, leadership support, patient care demands, and the wellness of nurses.
Methodology: Data from 140 nurses in the Midwest were collected by a survey that contained a combination of questions to evaluate the participants’ workload, their experiences of staffing stress, their perceptions of leadership support, their perceptions of the amount of demand created by patient care requirements, and their overall wellness. Results from the data were provided by use of descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, one-way ANOVA, and a multiple linear regression.
Results: The mean score for the participants’ ratings of their workload and staffing stress was 4.16 (SD = 0.72), which was the highest score of all the measured variables. The mean score for the participants’ ratings of patient care demands was 4.06 (SD = 0.65). Negative correlations were found between nursing wellness and measures of nursing workload (r = −.468, p < .001), staffing stress (r = −.394
, p < .001), and patient care demands (r = −.394, p < .001). Positive correlations were found between nursing wellness and leadership support (r = .512, p < .001) and support (r = .512, p < .001). A significant regression model was found. F(3,136) = 32.881, p < .001.
Conclusion: The findings of this study support the position that the organizational working conditions affect the wellness of nurses and, therefore, require integrated workplace interventions.