Nurse-Patient Burnout
It has been reported that the risk of burnout is high in the nursing profession. Nurse-patient interaction is focused on the patients’ problems and the situations can be ambiguous and frustrating, because solutions for patients’ problems may not be easily found (Lin, 2009). As Maslach & Jackson (2006) argued, for the person who works with people under these types of stressful situations for extended periods of time, burnout can occur. While compassion satisfaction can occur on a more rapid onset, burnout is experienced gradually from about five years (Azeem, Nazir, Zaidi, & Akhtar,