THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND SELF-EFFICACY AND JOB BURNOUT OF NURSES IN CRITICAL CARE UNITS IN MEDICAL TRAINING CENTERS OF HAMEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Nurses can be more successful in neutralizing the consequences of stressful factors in the work environment by using the job self-efficacy capability. Also, increasing self-efficacy and improving organizational justice could affect nurses' job burnout. This study aimed to determine the relationship between organizational justice and self-efficacy and job burnout of critical care departments nurses in 2022.

This descriptive analytical study of cross-sectional-correlation type was conducted on 220 nurses working in the critical care units of five teaching hospitals in Hamadan city in 2022. Niehoff and Moorman's organizational justice questionnaire, Riggs and Knight's job self-efficacy questionnaire, and Garosa et al.'s job burnout questionnaire were used to collect data. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS version 26 software.

The results showed that the mean and standard deviation (SD) of organizational justice in the participants was equal to 3.01 ± 0.67 which is at an optimal level. The mean and standard deviation of total self-efficacy and job burnout were 103.40 ± 10.93 and 28.26 ± 4.62, respectively, and at the average level. According to the findings, nurses' organizational justice significantly correlated with their self-efficacy (P < 0.001, r = 0.393). Also, the multiple linear regression model indicated that only the effect of distributive justice and individual self-efficacy beliefs were significant on job burnout (with 99% probability).

By increasing nurses' perception of organizational justice, there will be an increase and decrease in their job's self-efficacy and burnout, respectively. According to the identified relations, the attention of nursing managers and leaders to enhancing the level of organizational justice can improve nurses' job self-efficacy and slow down the process of nurse job burnout.