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What Is Nursing Burnout?

Prevalence

Characteristics of Nursing Burnout What Can You Do? Recommendations

Mindfulness In Practice

Significance

San Jose State University- Class of Spring 2016 Kelli Van Wandelen- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Nursing Burnout- How To Rekindle The Flame

Burnout is a condition in which nurses suffer from emotional exhaustion, experience a lack of personal accomplishment, and tend to depersonalize others.

One Study determined the prevalence of burnout characteristics across the nation. Nurses experienced

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Nursing Burnout Charateristics

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Mealer, Jones, Newman, Mcfann, Rothbaum, & Moss, M. (2012) Examined the prevalenceof nursing burnout in ICU nurses across the nation. The results are shown above.

Try these Mindfulness based practices to help refocus and relax.

Mindful Breathing

Mindful Looking

To help prevent burnout in your nursing carrier tryto implement some of the following into your routine

Take a 5 minute walk outside twice a shift

Chart throughout your shift to prevent charting off the clock.

Engage in self care activities outside of work like getting a massage or watching a fun movie.

Prepare all your meals and snacks the night before. If you are always rushed in the morning try making a pitcher of iced coffee for the week.

Remind yourself of why you chose to become a nurse

Learn to say NO to working over time Ask for help, if you think your

assignment is too busy talk to your charge nurse or call a buffer or resource nurse for assistance

1. Plan weekend long retreats for hospital staff and nurses. Retreats help promote relaxation and team building among nurses.

2. Seek out emotional support and healthy coping skills to help prevent or correct burnout.

3. Engage in self-care activities to promote relaxation and positive feelings.

4. Encourage your organization to provide nurses and staff with therapy programs and counseling services.

5. Plan a class on mindfulness training that staff can easily attends.

6. Managers can recognize and reward nurses. Nurse of the month gets one guaranteed A day.

7. Managers can encourage their staff to educate themselves on nursing burnout. Nurses can even earn CEU’s for taking this online course. “Burnout Coping with Job Related Stress in Healthcare” from online nursing continuing education.

References

Nursing burnout has been associated with an increase in hospital acquired urinary tract infections and surgical site infections Cimiatti, Aiken, Sloane, Wu (2012).

The Four Stages Of Nursing Burnout1. Physical and emotional exhaustion 2. Shame and doubt 3. Cynicism and callousness4. Failure, helplessness and collapse

Could you be experiencing nursing burnout? See how many of the symptoms you relate with below. Than see the “What Can You Do” section to find tips on managing burnout.

Physical exhaustion- feeling tired and drained all of the time, poor sleeping patterns, muscles aches and increase in sickness and colds.

Emotional Exhaustion- loosing motivation, feeling cynical, decreased satisfaction in accomplishment, feeling detached, feeling helpless and not finding the same excitement for your job as you once did.

Behavioral- calling in sick, arriving to work late or leaving early, procrastinating, withdrawing from ones responsibilities and taking ones frustration out on others.

Nursing burnout often caused but chronic stress. Chronic stress in the work place can make the body go into a constant fight or flight mode. Research shows that long term activation of the body’s stress response system can lead to:

Burnout: Coping with Job-Related Stress in Healthcare. Online nursing education course.

Don’t Burnout.Shine!

Sleep problems Anxiety Depression Weight gain Heart disease Digestive problems

Nursing burnout has been associated with working over time. Working over time not only contributes to fatigue but also decreases patient satisfaction Stimpfe, Sloane & Aiken (2012)

Sit or stand in a quiet place. Feel your breath move in and out of your body. Let all other worries and stresses fall away. Pay attention to the way your lungs expand with each breath. If your mind starts to wonder simply redirect your attention back to your breath. Try this for 2 minutes if your in a time crunch or 15-20 minutes at home

Find a few small, familiar objects such as a pen light or your stethoscope. Look at the objects with fresh eyes. Identify one new detail about each object that you didn't see before. As you become more aware of your world, you might become fonder of the things around you.

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