Introduction & Background: Nursing burnout is caused by high stress that leads to lack of motivation. Our goal is to review the literature to evaluate the impact of nurse burnout on nursing care.
Purpose Statement & Research Question: The purpose of this literature review was to find the impact on nursing care in response to nursing burnout.
Literature Review: These articles were derived from a variety of databases, including PubMed, JSTOR and CINHAL from the last 5 years by entering search criteria such as: “nursing burnout impact on patient care,” “nursing burnout”, “registered nurses”, “effects of burnout”, “consequences”, “turnover,” “nursing fatigue,” “registered nurse overtime,” and “causes burnout in the nursing profession” with a peer reviewed filter. Our group analyzed 8 of these articles.
Findings: Nurse burnout has been shown to increase registered nurse turnover rates, poor job performance, and threats to patient safety. Articles also showed that burnout caused strained personal relationships, poor level of patient care, patient dissatisfaction, an increased number of medical errors, higher infection rates, patient falls, pressure ulcers, critical incidents, quality of care, patient readmissions, and higher mortality rates. The authors proposed solutions that focused on managing stress through lower nurse-patient ratios and mental health improvement sessions to lower burnout and nursing fatigue.
Conclusions & Nursing Implications: The main conclusion reached in all the studies was that nursing burnout is growing and negatively impacting patient care. An example of a limitation found in the studies was not gathering evidence during an extended time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:es-conf-1143 |
| Date | 11 April 2024 |
| Creators | McCloud, Leah, Putnam, Kera F, Zeller, Dylan, Davis, Pressley |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Epsilon Sigma at-Large Research Conference |
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