Work Fatigue: A Case Study

Nurses is one of the individuals working in the field of community health service. They're resources that plays an important role in health care in hospitals. According to Sierra et al. (1997), nurses have a role of the defender services, the giver, educator, communicators, managers, and the development of a career. futhermore, Potter and Perry (2009), said that the nurses not only holds responsibility involving individuals, but also the caretakers of the family, patient's family, and community.

The nursing is the caring profession that has an important role in developing the quality of medical services in hospitals. The services was provided through the bio-psycho-sosialspiritual approach that carried out continuously for 24 hours. The demands

There are some other factors can affect them, such as increasing of workload and Individual factors that are less supportive to work optimally. The workload should be balanced between the capabilities with limitations of man (Tarwaka, 2010). The excessive of physical workload can affect to the health of nurses. The health problems of workers can lower work ability, productivity and performance (Suma'mur, 2009).

The increasing of workload and the physical of condition of nurses will be caused work fatigue. The studies showed that individual factors, such as age, occupation, marital status and nutrition affect of work fatigue (Eraliesa, 2009). The work fatigue is one factor cause low performance and increase the risk of errors in work (Nurmianto, 1996). Work fatigue which not handled can lead work problems, such as work accidents.

The Jambi Mental Hospital were health referral center for patients with mental disorder. This condition was cause increased number of patients and be affect to increasing of workload, finally it caused of work fatigue. The average number of outpatients is 175 to 200 per day. Meanwhile, the number of inpatients exceeds to total bed capacity (BOR> 100%) and it causes the ratio between the number of patients and nurses not