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Nursing Burnout: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. We outline what nurse burnout is, its risks, how to prevent it and how to address it if it’s happening to you.

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., 2019, Forsyth et al., 2011; Forsyth et al.,

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Travel Nursing Pre and Post-Pandemic

The Gypsy Nurse

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a bright light on the ongoing shortage — a shortage due in part to nurses retiring, a lack of nurse educators, and an aging patient population living longer with chronic medical conditions. The shortages have led to nurse burnout, which has played a role in decreasing retention levels.

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7 benefits Spectrum saw in its dual-role nurse initiative

Becker's Hospital Review

A dual-role nurse pilot project launched in 2019 at Spectrum Health’s Cardiothoracic Cardiac Care Unit in Grand Rapids, Mich., with an aim toward reducing turnover and advancing nurse training.

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Self-care within hospice and palliative care nursing

American Nurse

A literature review identifies opportunities to support nurses working in these care settings. Takeaways: Resilience helps prevent nurse burnout. Continuing education and professional development aid burnout reduction and improve nurse retention. Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. Research agenda.

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Caring for COVID?19 infected patients admitted to redesignated coronavirus ICUs: Impact on nurse stress and burnout

Nursing Forum

Abstract Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic globally impacted healthcare due to surges in infected patients and respiratory failure. Methods The descriptive study was conducted using frontline nurses working in eight critical care units based on exposure to COVID-19 infected patients.

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Patient prejudice toward minoritized nurses

American Nurse

Although limited by a new, untested survey, these data shed light on possible contributors to the current crisis of nurse burnout and staffing shortages as well as the serious negative impact on the well-being of both patients and nurses documented by Kieft and colleagues. January 25, 2023.

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