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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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Reimagining Maternal Care: Building a System of Care for Mothers, Babies, and Nurses

Minority Nurse

maternal deaths per 100,000 live births as of 2021 (CDC). Nearly 40% of mothers do not attend their postpartum check-ups, often due to logistical challenges, lack of support, or the misconception that the visits aren’t necessary (ACOG, 2021). For nurses, the challenge is equally significant.

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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., 2021; Faller et al., 2021; Romppanen et al.,

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International Study Examines Mental Health and Well-being of Nurses and Physicians

Consult QD

Clinician Wellbeing Study was a cross-sectional multicenter survey conducted in 2021 with clinicians at 60 U.S. Magnet hospitals and two large non-Magnet health systems, including 15,738 nurses and 5,312 physicians. 22% of nurses reported job dissatisfaction, and 40% indicated they intended to leave in the next year, if possible.

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The World Is On Edge…

Life of a Nurse

One of the largest cohorts for Registered Nurses and Physicians was 55 years and over (another significant one was 64+ old). According to RNAO (2021) 1/3 of nurses 50+ years are considering retirement within 2-5 years. — by 2030 Canada will need >117,000 nurses (Scheffler & Arnold, 2018). Nursing burnout.

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Depression is No Joke. How Nurses Can Use Laughter to Defeat Stress

Minority Nurse

Depression can often go together with burnout, according to a 2021 study , so nurses who feel burned out can also feel tired, lethargic, and not in the mood for anything. Nurses are also more likely to experience depression with burnout when faced with demanding work situations with high stress.

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Nurse.com and HOLLIBLU Join Together To Grow Nurse Community

Nurse.com

According to our 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report , 29% of nurses (across all licenses) are considering leaving the profession, compared to only 11% in our 2020 survey. This percentage can be attributed to different factors, including staffing concerns and nurse burnout.