Background: Nursing activities refer to providing both direct and indirect care to patients in community settings, particularly intensive care units where care for critically ill, disabled and dying patients may burden the nurses' productivity and quality of patient care, reflecting on their personal lives and leading to dissatisfaction about job and absenteeism. Therefore, work-life balancing practices aim to reduce stress and absenteeism and improve nurses' performance. Hence, improving work life balance (WLB) is of outmost importance to nurses, as it is the basis of the quality of working life (QWL). Aim: To assess the effect of nursing activities on the quality of work-life balance, absenteeism, and job satisfaction at intensive care units. Design: A Descriptive-Correlational research design was used. Setting: Mansoura University Hospitals' eight intensive care units. Subjects: A convenient sample included all nurses who are working in the above-mentioned setting (100 nurses). Tools: Five tools used for data collection: Tool (I) Self-administered questionnaire which included two parts (1) Nurse's socio-demographic characteristics data and (2) Work-life Balance Scale, Tool (II) Modified quality worklife questionnaire, Tool (III) Nurses perception related to job satisfaction, Tool (IV) Nurses absenteeism rate from nurses' attendance records, and Tool (V) Patients Acuity aimed to maintain equitable nurse to patient care assignment. Results: The majority of the nurses in the research said they had a poor overall Work-life interfered with the personal life of about two-thirds of nurses (67%), which indicated a poor life balance. Also, the results showed that personal life overlapped with work for more than half (52%), while it was found that the work/personal life improvement was low for more than a third (41%) of the nurses. There was a moderate correlation between the nurses' overall quality of work life and the general work-life balance, with a statistically significant difference at p < 0.01. Furthermore, nurses' job satisfaction was associated with overall quality of work life and overall work-life balance. Conclusion: A positive correlation between nurses' work-life balance, quality of work-life, absenteeism, and job satisfaction in ICUs at Mansoura University Hospital at. Recommendations: The work-life balance initiatives/strategies should be encompassed within national/international quality standards of healthcare system. Also further research is recommended to seek nurses' needs on such suggested standards.
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