Situational Anxiety and Work Performance among Nurses at Emergency Unites in Multan: A Serial Mediation Model of Work Place Mindfulness and Coping

Abstract

Nurses handle anxiety on a daily basis. As a result, it puts patients and nurses through a number of serious issues. This study used a serial mediation model of workplace mindfulness and coping to investigate the relationship between situational anxiety and work performance among nurses at Multan Emergency Units. While 198 nurses who worked in the emergency rooms of Multan Hospitals participated in this cross-sectional correlational study. SPSS26 was used to analyze the data, and PLS-SEM is used as a mediation tool. The study sample consisted of 198 female participants (100.0%), 133 married participants (67.2%), and 65 single participants (32.8%). Furthermore, 132 nurses (66.7%) worked in emergency rooms at public hospitals, and 66 nurses (33.3%) worked in the emergency rooms at private hospitals. The participants had an average age of 29.34 ± 4.245 years and an average work experience of 5.69 ± 3.027 years. The results of the situational anxiety and job performance serial mediating study indicate that the overall mediation analyses are statistically significant. Out of five models, four mediation analyses are statistically significant, according to a serial mediating analysis for situational anxiety and work performance.