Discussion
The nursing practice environment among
nurses
This study found that nursing practice
environment as perceived by subjects was
unfavorable, the results of all five subscales of
PES-NWI were also unfavorable. The results of
all five subscales of PES-NWI including, nurses
participation in hospital affairs, nursing
foundations for quality of care, nurse manager
ability, leadership and support of nursing, staffing
and resource adequacy and collegial nursephysician
relationship were also unfavorable
(Table 2). Nursing practice environment was
Work Environment 1.25-3.42 1.91 0.38 Low
Unit Collaboration 1.00-3.56 2.22 0.45 Moderate
Characteristics 2.43-4.00 3.10 0.26 High
Mood 1.00-3.75 2.60 0.45 Moderate
Table 4 Relationship between overall and each subscale of nursing practice environment, and quality of
nursing care as perceived by the subjects (n=305)
Nursing Practice Environment
QNC
r p
Overall NPE 0.80 0.000
Nurse participate in hospital affairs 0.76 0.000
Nursing foundations for QC 0.73 0.000
Nurse manager ability, leadership& support of nurses 0.63 0.000
Staffing and resource adequacy 0.67 0.000
Collegial nurse-physician relations 0.57 0.000
Table 5 Relationship between each dimension of burnout and quality of nursing care as perceived by the
subjects (N=305)
Burnout subscales
QNC
r p
Emotional Exhaustion - 0.22 0.000
Depersonalization 0.03 0.961
Personal Accomplishment 0.14 0.014
perceived by the subjects as unfavorable,
indicating that nurses perceived the organizational
characteristics of medical college hospitals did
not support nursing practice.
A possible explanation may be due to the
nursing staff and resource shortage. The nursepatient
ratio in hospitals is 1:15 (Zaman, 2009).
Hadley and Roques (2007) found that Bangladeshi
nurses’ main duties are paperwork, keeping track
of all instruments on the unit, medication
administration (injections), dressing changes, and
diet monitoring. Nurses are busy with their
routine work and pay more attention to their
specific responsibilities than participating in