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ABSTRACT
The balance on work and family is properly prioritized between one's career and personal life. It is not meant for equal balance in units of time between work and family but includes each individual's needs, experiences, and goals, and there is not a single thing for all solution. Work life balance is a challengeable task for the employees especially to women employees. Handling both family and work is a difficult job. Nursing professional is the one who provides care and support the patients. Thus the present study focuses on the work life balance of the nursing professionals. The findings of this study show that nursing professional has a moderate level of work interference in life and life interference in work. The overall work life balance shows a moderate level among the nursing professionals.
Keywords: Work Life Balance, Nursing Professionals, Life to Work, Work to Life.
INTRODUCTION
Health care industry is the fastest growing profession in India. The necessity of health care is increasing day by day due to the awareness and consciousness among the public about their health. Nurses play a vital role in providing health care and changing the life of the patients. Ipseeta Satpathy, et al. (2007) in his article stated that the word nursing came from the word nutritious which means to nourish, relish, care for, foster, etc. It also means to train, to educate, to supply with the essentials of growth. American nursing association defines "Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and protection from ill health and hurt, help to healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment, and support in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations".
The Quality of nursing is an important aspect in assessing the health care of the patients. But today nurses are facing numerous problems like workload, work time, etc. These things create stress and strain to the nurses which directly influences the quality of the health care which they provide to the patients. One of the important factors is which influence the stress of the nurses is their work life balance. Poor work life balance leads to lower job satisfaction, stress, intention to quit, etc. Work life balance is the balancing between the work and personal...