Abstract: Objective To understand the status of competence-face stress,job crafting and occupational burnout of nurses in cardiac surgery and analyze their correlation. Methods Nurses in cardiac surgery from 8 grade-A tertiary hospitals in Hubei Province were selected as the research subjects by simple random sampling from February to June 2024. The competence-face stress scale,job crafting scale and occupational burnout scale were used to investigate,and the data were analyzed. Results The competence-face stress score of nurses in cardiac surgery was （14.28±2.75）points,the job crafting score was （90.34±15.28）points, and the occupational burnout score was （60.36±10.84）points. The influencing factors of competence-face stress of cardiac surgery nurses were gender,age,education,professional title,years of work,average monthly income and average number of night shifts per month（all P<0.05）. The influencing factors of job crafting were age,professional title,years of work,average monthly income,average number of night shifts per month and marital status（all P<0.05）. The influencing factors of job burnout were age,professional title,years of work,average monthly income and average number of night shifts per month（all P<0.05）. The job burnout of cardiac surgery nurses was positively correlated with competence-face stress（r=0.673,P<0.01）,job crafting was negatively correlated with job burnout（r=-0.592,P<0.01）,and competence-face stress was negatively correlated with job crafting（r=-0.622,P<0.01）. Job crafting played a partial mediating role between competence-face stress and job burnout of cardiac surgery nurses,with a mediating effect of 0.257,accounting for 43.93% of the total effect. Conclusion Competence-face stress and job crafting of cardiac surgery nurses in 8 grade-A tertiary hospitals in Hubei Province are closely related to job burnout. Job crafting partially mediates the relationship between competence-face stress and job burnout. Improving the level of job crafting on the basis of reducing competence-face stress is conducive to alleviating the job burnout.

Key words: Cardiac surgery nurses, Competence-face stress, Job crafting, Occupational burnout, Correlation analysis