PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to analyze relationships between perfectionism, burnout, and emotional intelligence in APN and to identify the mediating effect of emotional intelligence on the relationship between perfectionism and burnout. METHODS: A structured self-report questionnaire was used to measure perfectionism, burnout, and emotional intelligence. Data were collected from 121 APN working in five advanced general hospitals and two general hospitals. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Independent t-test, One-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U test, Pearson correlation and Hierarchical multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 22.0 program. RESULTS: Mean scores for each variable were: perfectionism 3.57 (on a 5-point scale), burnout 3.32 (on a 7-point scale), and emotional intelligence 5.00 (on a 7-point scale). Self-oriented perfectionism had a positive correlation with burnout, as did socially prescribed perfectionism. Emotional intelligence was a significant variable reducing burnout, as it also had a reverse buffering effect on the relationship between self-oriented perfectionism and burnout. Explanatory power of the final model based on variables was 34%. CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest a mediating direction regarding burnout by demonstrating that emotional intelligence plays a direct and reverse buffering role to self-oriented perfectionism, which can be used to reduce burnout in APN.
Emotional Intelligence* ; Hospitals, General ; Negotiating*

13 cases of atypical meningioma were analysed, which were proven surgically S.N.U.H. for 3 years since Marach,1979. CT findings of atypical meningioma were central low density in 8 cases, large cyst in 4 cases, calcifiedmass in 1 case and non-specific scalp mass in 1 case. All the CT findings of atypical meningioma werepathologically proven as follows. Central low density was tissue necrosis in 5 cases, multiple cyts in 2 cases andhemorrhage in a case. Large cyst was arachnoid cyst in all 4 cases. Calcified mass was massive calcium depositionon tumor. Non-specific scalp mass on temporal area was meningioma involving soft tissue, bone and dura.
Arachnoid ; Bone and Bones ; Calcium ; Meningioma ; Necrosis ; Scalp