Comparing Work-Family Conflict and Job Burnout among Nurses with and without Rotating Shifts

Nursing is a non-stop job 24 hours a day, because patient caring is a full time task. The purpose of this study was to compare work-family conflict and burnout in nurses with and without rotating shifts. Material and Methods: This was a causal-comparative study. The population of this study consisted of nurses in Tabriz hospitals in 2017 and the sample size for this study included 160 individuals selected randomly based on multi-stage cluster for each group. To collect data, Terez Work-Family Conflict Questionnaire (2010) and Maslach (1988) job burnout were applied. Data were analyzed by SPSS 21 using multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that nurses with constant work shift reported less work-family conflict, family-work conflict, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal failure and burnout than nurses with rotating shift work, and these differences were significant at P<0.01 level. The results of this study showed that rotating nursing system causes problems in the family and nursing performance. This could have significant impact in policy-making for nursers’ health.