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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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The Rising Tide of Nursing Burnout: Insights and Reflections

NurseBuff

Fairly recently, a mental health tech, a nurse manager, and a psychiatrist – all long-time veterans of the psychiatric hospital where I work – retired and sadly died from heart attacks immediately after. I’m a mental health RN.

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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., 2020; Romppanen et al., 2017; Zhang et al.,

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Recharge and Reconnect: Nature’s Influence on Nurse Mental Health

Daily Nurse

In fact, in a recent study published in BMC Nursing, resilience in nurses was found to reduce nurse burnout significantly. Moreover, a six-week study into nurse burnout compared the psychological state of nurses working at a level-one trauma center in Portland, Oregon.

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5 Challenges (and Solutions) for Nurse Staffing Managers

Scrubs

Working as a nurse manager isn’t the same as working in other management positions. Not having enough nurses on the floor can lead to fatigue, burnout, poor patient outcomes, and even deadly medical errors. To make the situation even more dire, the country is also preparing for a looming nursing shortage.

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Critical Care Association President Wants Nurses to be Heard

Nurse.com

What the pandemic has shown us is that there are many paths to becoming a critical care nurse. Fundamentally, though, what nursing looked like before the pandemic and what nursing care looks like now inside the ICU are basically the same. A: Nurse burnout is driven by different things in critical care nursing.

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Why Are Nurses Quitting?

Post University

Understanding the High Turnover Rate Among Nurses According to the article “ Nursing Shortage ,” published in the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the national average turnover rate in nursing is between 8.8% When the symptoms of burnout become too severe, nurses may feel like they have no choice but to quit.