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Revista Cubana de Enfermería
versión impresa ISSN 0864-0319versión On-line ISSN 1561-2961
Resumen
VELASQUEZ PERALES, Rosa Albina; LOLI PONCE, Rudi Amalia y SANDOVAL VEGAS, Miguel Hernán. Factors Associated to Work Absenteeism in Nurses. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2019, vol.35, n.4, e3268. Epub 01-Dic-2019. ISSN 0864-0319.
Introduction:
Absenteeism in nursing is a frequent problem, of great socioeconomic impact and representing a risk for the quality of care.
Objective:
To describe work absenteeism and its associated factors in nurses of a third-level hospital institution.
Methods:
Cross-sectional and descriptive research carried out at Dos de Mayo National Hospital in Lima-Peru, during 2018. The study group consisted of 471 nurses and the random sample was made up of 72. The absence records of the years 2016 and 2017 were reviewed, and a questionnaire with prior informed consent was applied. The data were processed and analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Results:
97.22% (70) belonged to the female sex, 47.22% (34) were at aged 31-44, 50% (36) were married, and 23.61% (17) were separated. The rate of absenteeism was 4%, severity was 40 hours lost per 1000 worked hours per nurses, and 6 shifts were lost per nurse yearly.
Conclusions:
The magnitude of total absenteeism due to nonattendances is high. Partial and unanticipated absenteeism predominated: late arrivals and leaves. The personal factors associated with absenteeism were having young children, employment relationship with another institution; having children at the same time of having elderly parents under the nurse’s care, having a chronic illness in addition to caring for their parents and having children, being a father and mother at home, besides having children, two jobs and taking care of one of their parents. The labor and extra-labor factors were difficulties in the work area, not being able to change the shift, and external training.
Palabras clave : absenteeism; nurses; hospital; hospital management.