Burnout in nursing: what have we learnt and what do we still need to know?
Burnout in nursing: what have we learnt and what do we still need to know?
Recent health workforce crises, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have meant that burnout has often become a ‘buzzword’ to represent stress, extreme tiredness, and a willingness to quit one’s job. Several studies in nursing focus on burnout as an indicator of adverse work environments or staff characteristics. Nonetheless, what burnout is - what aspects contribute to its development and what the effect is for nurses, healthcare organisations, or their patients - is often overlooked.
This evidence brief describes a review, undertaken by researchers at the University of Southampton, of the research examining relationships between burnout and work-related variables. We sought to determine what is known (and not known) about the causes and consequences of burnout in nursing, and whether these relationships confirm or dispute Maslach’s theory of burnout.
Burnout, Nursing, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Job demands, Practice environment
Dall'ora, Chiara
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Saville, Christina
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21 October 2020
Dall'ora, Chiara
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Saville, Christina
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Dall'ora, Chiara
,
Saville, Christina
(ed.)
(2020)
Burnout in nursing: what have we learnt and what do we still need to know?
Evidence Brief, (16).
Abstract
Recent health workforce crises, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have meant that burnout has often become a ‘buzzword’ to represent stress, extreme tiredness, and a willingness to quit one’s job. Several studies in nursing focus on burnout as an indicator of adverse work environments or staff characteristics. Nonetheless, what burnout is - what aspects contribute to its development and what the effect is for nurses, healthcare organisations, or their patients - is often overlooked.
This evidence brief describes a review, undertaken by researchers at the University of Southampton, of the research examining relationships between burnout and work-related variables. We sought to determine what is known (and not known) about the causes and consequences of burnout in nursing, and whether these relationships confirm or dispute Maslach’s theory of burnout.
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Evidence brief burnout
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Published date: 21 October 2020
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Burnout, Nursing, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Job demands, Practice environment
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