Introduction

Background: Health care is becoming an increasingly complex issue, due to evolving treatment approaches, and changes in the structure and applications of new concepts such as technology, law, regulations and financial management. In the performance of health sector, the effective management and human resources are vital issue, and any imbalance between them lead to more problems such as work stress, burnout, high rates of staff turnover , turnover intentions, absenteeism and poor job satisfaction that continue to be important issues experienced by health administrators. The main purpose of this research was to assess the relation between organizational commitment and job burnout among staff nurses. The study was carried out at the inpatient departments of El-Abassia Governmental Hospital for Psychiatric and Mental Health affiliated to Ministry of Health, Cairo. The sample included 220 staff nurses. Data collection tools: data was collected using two tools: Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) and Maslach Burnout Inventory scale. Results: the current study revealed that about half of the studied nurses had high organizational commitment, one quarter were low and more than one quarter of them were moderately committed. And more than half of them had low job burnout level, less than one quarter of the participants had moderate level and four fifth had high job burnout level. Conclusion showed that there were statistically significant positive correlations among all organizational commitment dimensions and studied staff nurses' level of burnout. There was a significant correlation between organizational commitment and job burnout among staff nurses and organizational commitment has direct effect on job burnout among staff nurses. This study recommended that continuing evaluation for organizational commitment and burnout among staff nurses, providing various educational methods to improve nurse work environment should be emphasized through policy to retain nurses in the workforce, and further research is needed to investigate the tools, guidelines and interventions used by managers in the nursing field to create healthy and welcoming working conditions.