The popularity of the nursing field for the past several decades has enticed many to
follow their educational dream of working with patients, physicians, and medical staff. The
recognition of how difficult this field i
...
The popularity of the nursing field for the past several decades has enticed many to
follow their educational dream of working with patients, physicians, and medical staff. The
recognition of how difficult this field is not as advertised as the rewards and satisfaction facets
from patient and medical care. However, understanding the emotional and physical stress that
comes with nursing, is imperative to those in this field in order to combat build up factors that
can cause a nurse burnout phenomenon which incites what is termed as an impairment in nursing
abilities. The incident of nurse burnout is, in fact, an impairment to those both as a nurse and
working with the impaired nurse as it has an overall negative impact on the entirety of nurse
practices and the surrounding environment in which they work.
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EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICES: NURSING BURNOUT 2
Nurse burnout can be defined as the long-term response to any type of chronic
interpersonal, physical, or emotional stress found on the job. There are three specific dimensions
inclusive to depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment, and emotional exhaustion. The
former is a suggestion of negative feelings or even a cynical attitude toward patients or other
such recipients of care. Reduction of personal accomplishment means negatively evaluating
one’s own work and emotional exhaustion can be termed as the feeling of being emotionally
drained due to continued contact with patients and others (Wang, Liu, & PharM, 2013).
Significance of the Problem
Considered an occupational hazard, nurse burnout has increased in nurses due to rising
costs of health care, the increase in use of technology, and due to the increase in regulations for
patient care. Such changes and increases are part of the causation for stress within the field of
nursing and have been studied with many experts suggesting one out of five nurses will suffer
from such within their first year of work, and is significantly higher for those nursing who work
in a hospital setting (Rushton, et al., 2015).
The suggestion from those in the field of nursing debate whether the environment is a
main factor and cause for burnout in nurses as well. In order to determine intervention and
preventative methods from nurse burnout, experts have considered the type of environment
causes the most stress for nurses. Because hospital nurses have to cover specific shifts, they are
more prone to burnout as the shortage of nurses in the past decades has causes longer working
hours and more need for shift coverages and nursing shortages.
Current Practices Related to Nurse Burnout
In order to combat nurse burnout, many educational venues such as colleges and
universities prepare nurses for methods in which they can recognition, prevent, and treat burnout
symptoms well before the issue becomes serious and affects those patients they treat. To do so
certain diverse methods of education are continually introduced such as having educators work
with the healthcare industry to continue such educational endeavors for those nurses who are
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