Performance of female nurses: Dual career, work environment and work stress

Abstract

Performance of female nurses in several hospital in Bondowoso, Indonesia. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of dual career and work environment on the performance of female nurses with work stress as an intervening variable. The population in this study were all female nurses in several hospitals in Bondowoso namely Dr. Kusnadi Hospital, Bhayangkara Hospital, and Mitra Medika Hospital who are married and or have children. The sampling technique used is saturated samples or censuses. The data used are qualitative and quantitative data. Path analysis. In this study, based on the result of path analysis in this study, dual career has positive and significant effect on job stress, work environment has negative and significant effect on job stress, dual career has negative and significant effect on job performance, work environment has positive and significant effect on job performance, and job stress has negative and significant effect on the job performance of female nurses in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Conclude, demands to balance work duties as nurses and demands as family members have the potential to create work-family conflicts that have an impact on work stress and reduce performance. Uncomfortable and disturbing work environment also can be a stress trigger and then bring bad effect on nurse performance. The result showed that dual career triggers job stress and reduce performance, work environment decreases job stress and increase job performance, and job stress decreases the job performance of female nurses in Bondowoso, Indonesia.