Professional Quality of Life and Patient Outcomes: Mediating Role of Missed Nursing Care

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the reason for adverse patient outcomes due to missed nursing care related to professional quality of life. The study has also explained the mediating effect of missed nursing care between professional quality of life and adverse patient outcomes. The research framework includes professional quality of life as an independent variable which comprises compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout, missed nursing care as a mediator and adverse patient outcomes as a dependent variable. This cross sectional quantitative deductive research conducted among the nurses, convenient sampling method used for collecting data. Questionnaire selected for all the variables which studied in this research with appropriate likert scale. Population size was 411 which gives a sample size of 202 nurses. Results of the study revealed that missed nursing care mediates negative relation with compassion satisfaction and adverse patient outcomes, positive relation with compassion fatigue and adverse patient outcomes and furthermore positive relation between burnout and adverse patient outcomes. This research concluded that missed nursing care had mediating effects on adverse patient outcomes and professional quality of life. So it must be reduced to enhance positive patient outcomes. Moreover active learning, advanced skills courses should be held and proper monitoring of nurses activity and self reporting of missed nursing care and adverse patient events should be necessary.