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Aim: This study was conducted to determine the relationship between compassion, burnout and job satisfaction levels of nurses and health care personnel working in geriatric care center. Materials and Methods: A cross‐ sectional, descriptive was adopted. This study was carried out on June-July in 2019 in three elderly institutions in Istanbul. The sample consisted of 133 health workers who accepted to participate in the study. Data were collected with the General Information Form (GIF), the Compassion Scale (CS), the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Results: Participants had average age of 30.7±9, among which 72.2% were female, 53.4% were care personnel and 39% worked in night shift. The mean scores of the participants on the compassion scale, on its kindness, on its ındifference, on its common humanity, on its separation, on its mindfulness, and on its disengagement were 4.11±0.49, 4.28±0.63, 4.00±0.80, 4.15±0.69, 4.00±0.80, 4.09±0.66, and 4.14±0.86 respectively. The results showed that the mean scores of the participants on its emotional exhaustion, on its depersonalization, and on its personal achievement were 1.43±0.70, 0.78±0.63, and 1.38±0.50 respectively. When participants were evaluated for job satisfaction, more than half of the participants (57.9%) were found to have high internal job satisfaction and 66.9% had intermediate external job satisfaction. There was a negative correlation between CS-and-subscales and MBI-and-subscales, and a positive correlation between personal success and awareness of sharing. Conclusion: Participants of this study had high compassion scores, good job satisfaction and low burnout scores. Increasing compassion level decreasing burnout level of personnel giving elderly care.

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