Burn Out In Nursing
Can the nursing educational system prevent the burnout phase in all levels of nursing care?
Burnout is not a term that can only be used for sports and exercising. As a matter of fact, it is an emotional and psychological term as well. The definition of burnout in the medical field is the main focus of this paper. Burn out is a state of mental and or physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress (Lavery, 2007). In another word, it is a syndrome of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment that leads to a decreased effectiveness at work (Shanafelt, 2002). Nursing school is like a factory which builds an effective workforce and establishes a safe, pleasant healthcare environment. Conversely,
it is capable of producing workers who are novice in patient care and do not know what to do when their school learning experiences create assumptions that differ from what is learned in everyday practical nursing experiences. Consequently, new graduate students go through some emotionaly hard and physicaly critical stressors which cause burnout.
Research shows 1 in 5 nurses will experience burnout in their nursing career and will consequently cause leaving their profession (McHugh, et al. 2004). University graduate nurses, specifically younger graduate nurses, are more susceptible to burnout and have higher incidents of burnout because the theoretical experiences they learn at school vastly differ from practical experiences. Furthermore, younger graduate nurses spend more time and become more involved with clients compared to senior nurses. This type of nursing practice becomes very time consuming for the young nurses creating more burden on this group’s shoulders and concequently creates higher incidents of burnout.
Burnout is not a term that can only be used for sports and exercising. As a matter of fact, it is an emotional and psychological term as well. The definition of burnout in the medical field is the main focus of this paper. Burn out is a state of mental and or physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress (Lavery, 2007). In another word, it is a syndrome of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment that leads to a decreased effectiveness at work (Shanafelt, 2002). Nursing school is like a factory which builds an effective workforce and establishes a safe, pleasant healthcare environment. Conversely,
it is capable of producing workers who are novice in patient care and do not know what to do when their school learning experiences create assumptions that differ from what is learned in everyday practical nursing experiences. Consequently, new graduate students go through some emotionaly hard and physicaly critical stressors which cause burnout.
Research shows 1 in 5 nurses will experience burnout in their nursing career and will consequently cause leaving their profession (McHugh, et al. 2004). University graduate nurses, specifically younger graduate nurses, are more susceptible to burnout and have higher incidents of burnout because the theoretical experiences they learn at school vastly differ from practical experiences. Furthermore, younger graduate nurses spend more time and become more involved with clients compared to senior nurses. This type of nursing practice becomes very time consuming for the young nurses creating more burden on this group’s shoulders and concequently creates higher incidents of burnout.