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Burnout Syndrome - correct answer ✔✔ -First described in the 1970s, BOS is a work-related
group of symptoms that often occurs in individuals without any prior history of psychological
disorders.
-BOS is triggered by a discrepancy between the expectations of the employee and the actual
requirements of their position
Burnout
-Types of Stress - correct answer ✔✔ Nurses work in environments with high physical,
psychological and emotional stress.
Physical: standing, bending, lifting.
Phycological stress: Processing analyzing large amounts of patient information
Emotional: nurses are impacted by the pain and suffering of their patients.
Nurses have some of the highest levels of burnout in the medical profession. They experience
higher level of burnout than medical physicians and medical technicians.
Burnout has a negative impact on individual nurses, organizations, and patient outcomes.
Burnout
-prevention - correct answer ✔✔ "Only when we first care for and respect ourselves, we are
better equipped to care for others with equal level of respect and compassion. (Lee, 2019)"
,Some ways to take care of yourself:
-Stop and breathe. When you're stressed, stop what you're doing, take a deep breath to collect
yourself.
-Take inventory of your stressors. Write down the things that are causing you anxiety, then
brainstorm at least one way to reduce each stressor.
-Practice daily meditation.
-Engage in healthy activities. Getting enough sleep, eating healthy foods, avoiding stress eating,
and exercising.
-Seek support from coworkers, managers, and friends. Many employers also offer assistance
program that provide workers with counseling, and stress management classes.
-Practice gratitude. Many studies have shown that taking a second to appreciate the things in
your life that are good can help to reduce stress.
Highest areas of burnout in nursing - correct answer ✔✔ -Nurses have some of the highest
levels of burnout in the medical profession. They experience higher level of burnout than
medical physicians and medical technicians.
Burnout
-Patient care impact - correct answer ✔✔ -Evidence from the American Nurses Association
suggests that stress from long hours of work, rotating shifts, and infrequent breaks slows down
reaction times, reduces motivation, and increases errors — all of which decrease quality of care,
and put patients at risk.
-BOS causes an increase in adverse patient events; example are increases in medication errors
and infections. For example, in one Pennsylvania hospital, researchers found an association
between high nursing workloads and urinary tract and surgical site infections in patients.
Burnout
-organizational cost - correct answer ✔✔ -Nurse burnout also results in financial consequences
for health care organizations. The stress of BOS is hard on the health of nurses. This causes an
increase in sick calls.
, -Productivity goes down because nurses are tired.
-BOS decreases Job satisfaction so nurses often look for alternate employment, causing high
turnover rates. Then new staff needs to be hired and trained, which is expensive.
-Each registered nurse turnover costs a health care facility an average of $62,100 to $67,000
(Henderson, 2015).
Burnout
-Nurse health impact (4) - correct answer ✔✔ BOS puts nurses at increased risk for:
-Hypertension, heart disease, ulcers, migraines, diabetes, fatigue, allergic disorders, mental
health disorders and behavioral changes.
-Depression, anxiety, insomnia, and increased risk for suicide are also common impacts of BOS.
-The development of toxic habits is an additional consequence of nurse burnout. Some nurses
abuse drugs or alcohol or adopt unhealth eating habits which can lead to obesity (Henderson,
2015).
3 dimensions of burnout syndrome (3) - correct answer ✔✔ Emotional Exhaustion
-Emotional Exhaustion refers to feelings of being overextended and depleted emotionally and
physically. *"too tired to care" or perhaps too tired to remember wash your hands between
every patient?
-Emotional exhaustion is linked to a decline in three main cognitive areas:
Executive Function, **such as planning and organizing: can you prioritize your patient care.
Attention: **are you listening to what your patients are telling you.
Memory: **can you remember the important details you heard in report.
Without full use of these executive functions, we cannot synthesize important data.
Depersonalization and Cynicism
-Nurses treat patients as objects rather than people. *Saying the appendix in room 1 instead of
using the patient's name. Not speaking directly to the patient when doing cares.
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Burnout Syndrome - correct answer ✔✔ -First described in the 1970s, BOS is a work-related
group of symptoms that often occurs in individuals without any prior history of psychological
disorders.
-BOS is triggered by a discrepancy between the expectations of the employee and the actual
requirements of their position
Burnout
-Types of Stress - correct answer ✔✔ Nurses work in environments with high physical,
psychological and emotional stress.
Physical: standing, bending, lifting.
Phycological stress: Processing analyzing large amounts of patient information
Emotional: nurses are impacted by the pain and suffering of their patients.
Nurses have some of the highest levels of burnout in the medical profession. They experience
higher level of burnout than medical physicians and medical technicians.
Burnout has a negative impact on individual nurses, organizations, and patient outcomes.
Burnout
-prevention - correct answer ✔✔ "Only when we first care for and respect ourselves, we are
better equipped to care for others with equal level of respect and compassion. (Lee, 2019)"
,Some ways to take care of yourself:
-Stop and breathe. When you're stressed, stop what you're doing, take a deep breath to collect
yourself.
-Take inventory of your stressors. Write down the things that are causing you anxiety, then
brainstorm at least one way to reduce each stressor.
-Practice daily meditation.
-Engage in healthy activities. Getting enough sleep, eating healthy foods, avoiding stress eating,
and exercising.
-Seek support from coworkers, managers, and friends. Many employers also offer assistance
program that provide workers with counseling, and stress management classes.
-Practice gratitude. Many studies have shown that taking a second to appreciate the things in
your life that are good can help to reduce stress.
Highest areas of burnout in nursing - correct answer ✔✔ -Nurses have some of the highest
levels of burnout in the medical profession. They experience higher level of burnout than
medical physicians and medical technicians.
Burnout
-Patient care impact - correct answer ✔✔ -Evidence from the American Nurses Association
suggests that stress from long hours of work, rotating shifts, and infrequent breaks slows down
reaction times, reduces motivation, and increases errors — all of which decrease quality of care,
and put patients at risk.
-BOS causes an increase in adverse patient events; example are increases in medication errors
and infections. For example, in one Pennsylvania hospital, researchers found an association
between high nursing workloads and urinary tract and surgical site infections in patients.
Burnout
-organizational cost - correct answer ✔✔ -Nurse burnout also results in financial consequences
for health care organizations. The stress of BOS is hard on the health of nurses. This causes an
increase in sick calls.
, -Productivity goes down because nurses are tired.
-BOS decreases Job satisfaction so nurses often look for alternate employment, causing high
turnover rates. Then new staff needs to be hired and trained, which is expensive.
-Each registered nurse turnover costs a health care facility an average of $62,100 to $67,000
(Henderson, 2015).
Burnout
-Nurse health impact (4) - correct answer ✔✔ BOS puts nurses at increased risk for:
-Hypertension, heart disease, ulcers, migraines, diabetes, fatigue, allergic disorders, mental
health disorders and behavioral changes.
-Depression, anxiety, insomnia, and increased risk for suicide are also common impacts of BOS.
-The development of toxic habits is an additional consequence of nurse burnout. Some nurses
abuse drugs or alcohol or adopt unhealth eating habits which can lead to obesity (Henderson,
2015).
3 dimensions of burnout syndrome (3) - correct answer ✔✔ Emotional Exhaustion
-Emotional Exhaustion refers to feelings of being overextended and depleted emotionally and
physically. *"too tired to care" or perhaps too tired to remember wash your hands between
every patient?
-Emotional exhaustion is linked to a decline in three main cognitive areas:
Executive Function, **such as planning and organizing: can you prioritize your patient care.
Attention: **are you listening to what your patients are telling you.
Memory: **can you remember the important details you heard in report.
Without full use of these executive functions, we cannot synthesize important data.
Depersonalization and Cynicism
-Nurses treat patients as objects rather than people. *Saying the appendix in room 1 instead of
using the patient's name. Not speaking directly to the patient when doing cares.
