Purpose: This study explored the role of several psychological factors in professional quality of life in nurses. Specifically, we tried to clarify the relationships between several dimensions of empathy, self-compassion, and psychological inflexibility, and positive (compassion satisfaction) and negative (burnout and compassion fatigue) domains of professional quality of life. Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 221 oncology nurses recruited from several public hospitals filled out a battery of self-report measures. Results: Results suggested that nurses that benefit more from their work of helping and assisting others (compassion satisfaction) seem to have more empathic feelings and sensibility towards others in distress and make an effort to see things from others' perspective. Also, they are less disturbed by negative feelings associated with seeing others' suffering and are more self-compassionate. Nurses more prone to experience the negative consequences associated with care-providing (burnout and compassion fatigue) are more self-judgmental and have more psychological inflexibility. In addition, they experience more personal feelings of distress when seeing others in suffering and less feelings of empathy and sensibility to others' suffering. Psychological factors explained 26% of compassion satisfaction, 29% of burnout and 18% of compassion fatigue. Conclusion: We discuss the results in terms of the importance of taking into account the role of these psychological factors in oncology nurses' professional quality of life, and of designing nursing education training and interventions aimed at targeting such factors. *Abstract Highlights-Nurses' empathy and self-compassion predicted satisfaction with the work of helping;-Personal distress predicted burnout symptoms;-Psychological inflexibility predicted burnout and compassion fatigue;-Psychological factors are important to understand nurses' professional quality of life. *Highlights (for review) 1 The role of psychological factors in oncology nurses' burnout and compassion fatigue symptoms *Manuscript (without author details) Click here to view linked References 2 Abstract Purpose: This study explored the role of several psychological factors in professional quality of life in nurses. Specifically, we tried to clarify the relationships between several dimensions of empathy, self-compassion, and psychological inflexibility, and positive (compassion satisfaction) and negative (burnout and compassion fatigue) domains of professional quality of life. Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 221 oncology nurses recruited from several public hospitals filled out a battery of self-report measures. Results: Results suggested that nurses that benefit more from their work of helping and assisting others (compassion satisfaction) seem to have more empathic feelings and sensibility towards others in distress and make an effort to see things from others' perspective. Also, they are less disturbed by negative feelings ...

Studies reveal that emotional labor is a key feature of caring professions. The present study explored emotional labor as an occupational requirement for employees of not-for-profit human services organizations providing services to individuals with disabilities relating to work outcomes (job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover intention). A cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected from a sample of 518 human services employees. The results indicated that: (1) supervisors of direct services and their employees, front line direct care workers, reported the highest levels of emotional labor; (2) the emotional regulation strategy of deep acting increased job satisfaction; (3) the emotional regulation strategy of surface acting increased burnout; and (4) the emotional regulation strategy of surface acting increased turnover intention. The findings highlight the need to address emotional labor regulation strategies within human services organizations in order to address work outcomes and support employees, providing direct services to individuals.

Learning is the major human activity which can make people to accommodate the environment or the society better. The effectiveness of learning is one important research issue in orange technology. The learning effectiveness of nurse education is more important than the other types of educations. In this paper, we proposed a work which develops a simulationbased digital courseware for intramuscular injection training in nurse education, to improve the learning effectiveness of practical nursing care training. The design of courseware is guided by the constructivism. In addition, the scenario simulation and game are involved to enhance the learning motivation. Moreover, the course has been successfully applied on the nursing students in Taiwan.

Background China's elderly population is growing rapidly. As the primary provider of geriatric care services, the expertise and care competencies of nursing staff directly affect the quality of services provided by elderly care institutions. To develop a geriatric care capacity needs questionnaire to provide an assessment tool for the implementation of geriatric care quality improvement and staff capacity building programs in elderly care institutions. Methods Based on the literature review, a questionnaire item pool was established. The initial questionnaire was formed by interviewing senior nursing staff and a pilot survey. The formal questionnaire was formed by testing the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Results The Elderly Care Capacity Needs Questionnaire (ECCNQ) was composed of 12 dimensions. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of the total questionnaire was 0.860. The Spearman-Brown coefficient was 0.832, Guttman split-half coefficient was 0.83. The correlation coefficient between each dimension and the total questionnaire was 0.472–0.737. Conclusions The reliability and validity of the ECCNQ are acceptable, with good stability and effectiveness, which can be used as an evaluation tool for elderly care capacity needs.