Each health care organisation has certain characteristics in terms of activities and
work methods, that differentiate areorganisation from the other. These characteristics
represent the work environment that nurses work within. Nursing work environ
ment
received an international attention recentlyspecial emphasis on the importance of
improvinghospitals environment for its influence on organizational and individuals
outcomes such as absence of nurses, job dissatisfaction, nursing turnover , Burnout
,intention to leave the profession workplace, nursing represents an important part of an
essential element in the system of health care, work in the pressing environment can affect
the psychological health and arrival at Burnout .This study aim to study the impact of
nursing work environment on nurse’ burnout in critical care units in government hospital
settings in Lattakia. The study showed that the environment of nursing work environment
is unfavorable, from the point of view of more than half of the nursing staff participating in
the study 2,where the highest scoring of subscale was:/nurse physician communications
skills/ and lowest scoring of subscale was/nurse foundations for quality of care/ ,well as
the study showed the existence of a direct relationship between the work environment
unfavorable and burnout , and the work environment in all its dimensions affect the
burnout, where after /nurse manager's ability, leadership, and support of nurses/ where the
most influential dimensions in the nurse’ burnout, while /nurse-physician communications
skills/ the less influential dimensions in the development of nurse’ burnout, on , study
showed that there is a link between each of the dimensions of the an environment nursing
work and dimensions of the burnout, where that the / nurse foundations for quality of care/
importance of its role more than the impact in raising the rate of emotional exhaustion,
while after /nurse participation in organization affairs/ of the importance of its role more
than the dimensions of the work environment impact in raising the rate of
depersonalization, as it was after the / adequacy of resources and nurses/ more than the
dimensions of the work environment impact in reducing the proportion of personal
achievement.
