Workload Relationship With The Attitude of Nurse In Fulfilling The Patient‟s Spiritual Needs

Introduction: Nurses as health professionals should
be able to pay attention to the status of patients who are not only
being the bio-psycho-socio-cultural but also spiritual. Many
nurses who complain of high workload, so it can not meet the
spiritual aspect. The results of the initial survey in Siti Khadija
Hospital the behavior of nurses in the spiritual fulfillment are
lacking because of the amount increasing the number of Patients,
and the number of nurses is lacking. The number of nurses could
be measured by using the calculation of the number of beds and
number of BOR per month. The purpose of this study was to
Knowing the nurse's workload relationship with the attitude in
fulfilling the patient's spiritual needs in the Inpatient Siti
Khadija Sepanjang Hospital. Method: This research method
used the correlation study. Samples taken amounted to 47
respondents, using random sampling techniques. Data was collect
used questionnaires and analyzed used Spearman's, Rho. Result:
the workload of nurses experiencing high workload as many as
31 nurses with an average percentage of 66% and attitudes of
nurses in fulfilling the spiritual needs of Patients Showed that the
majority of nurses who provide spiritual needs less Obtain the
highest score by 26 nurses with a percentage of 55% with the
result of the test statistic ρ = 0.002 <α = 0:05. Conclusion: the
significant relationship between workload with the attitude of
nurses in fulfilling the spiritual needs of patients in the inpatient
of Siti Khadijah Sepanjang Hospital.
Keywords: fulfillment of spiritual needs, nurse, attitude, workload