The purpose of this descriptive study is to review spirituality, health promotion behaviors and sleeping quality of the nurses working on the shift system and thereby, analyze the correlations among these variables. For this purpose, the researcher sampled 236 nurses who were working on a three shift system for more than a year at ‘C’ university hospital in Seoul. The researcher conducted a questionnaire survey for the period from May 13 through May 27, 2018.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows;
Subjects’ spirituality was positively correlated with their health promotion behaviors (r=.50, p<.000), while being inversely correlated with their sleeping quality (r=-.17, p=.009). Their health promotion behaviors were
not significantly correlated with their sleeping quality(r=-.05, p=.465).
This study may be significant in that it analyzed the correlation among the 3-shift working nurses’ spirituality, their health promotion behaviors and sleeping quality, and thereby that it proved that their spirituality was
correlated with their sleeping quality. Hence, it is deemed necessary to develop an intervention program in consideration of such correlations. Lastly, it is perceived that such a spirituality-reinstating program would
serve to enhance the 3-shift working nurses’ health promotion behaviors and sleeping quality.