Well‐being of nurses and working conditions—Are polish nurses different from doctors and midwives in terms of professional quality of life?

AIM: The aim of the study is to assess the differences in the professional quality of life between nurses, midwives and doctors. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional study. METHODS: A total of 297 participants were surveyed: 165 nurses, 101 doctors and 31 midwives. We used ProQol questionnaire with three subscales (compassion satisfaction ‐CS, burnout‐ B, compassion fatigue‐CF and own questionnaire (social‐demographics data). RESULTS: Burnout and CF were average in a group of nurse and midwives, low in group of doctors. In group of nurses, a relationship was observed between compassion satisfaction and: job seniority (p < .01), basic place of work (p < .01), self‐assessment of work situation (p < .01), as well as between burnout and: job seniority (p < .05), form of employment (p = .03), basic place of work (p = .002), self‐assessment of work situation (p < .01). In group of midwives was only the relationship between the self‐assessment of work situation and: CS (p < .01) and burnout (p < .01) were shown.