The Problem of Nursing Burnout

Subject: Nursing
Pages: 1
Words: 359
Reading time:
2 min
Study level: Bachelor

Nursing burnout is a considerable problem as it affects patient safety. Therefore, maintaining nurses’ mental health is essential in adverse events prevention. The possible intervention measures will involve workshops conducted by volunteers with online yoga and meditation classes held via Instagram Live. Recent studies prove that depression issues are common among nurses (Hu et al., 2020). Modern researchers identified the spread of life-threatening diseases, organizational matters, monotony, and overload as major causes of nurses’ emotional exhaustion (López-López et al., 2019; Hu et al., 2020).

However, participating in supportive groups of professionals with regular education and training in communication skills, connecting with family, social integration into the organization, and yoga practice, could reduce nurses’ emotional exhaustion (Cocchiara et al., 2019; Permarupan et al., 2020; Zeng et al., 2020). Thus, the literature emphasizes that burnout prevention methods should rely on social interaction and resilience training.

The program aims to provide nurses with access to free regular yoga and mindfulness/meditation classes to help them prevent burnout. The smaller project’s objectives include developing guidance materials, recruiting volunteers, training, establishing an e-mail notification system, conducting classes using Instagram Live, and monitoring the results. It is necessary to allocate a specialized room with yoga and meditation mats, ensure that volunteers have their devices with an Internet connection, and distribute exercise mats to nurses. The main expected outcome of the intervention is the prevention of burnout among nurses with the decreasing number of adverse patient events and increasing levels of nurses’ job satisfaction. The effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated with statistical data analysis of adverse patient events, patient safety, nurses’ job satisfaction, and stress assessment before and after the program’s launch and every two weeks after the start.

The interprofessional collaboration with my preceptor improved the effectiveness of my presentation as I shortened some information on the slides making it more concise and logically structured for a better general appearance. The feedback from the auditory included the questions about volunteers’ motivation. I suppose it is an important aspect of the project’s implementation. In my future professional practice, I will also consider motivational bonuses in nursing management, such as positive social appraisal or promotion methods.

References

Cocchiara, R. A., Peruzzo, M., Mannocci, A., Ottolenghi, L., Villari, P., Polimeni, A., Guerra, F., & La Torre, G. (2019). The use of yoga to manage stress and burnout in healthcare workers: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(3), 1-11. Web.

Hu, D., Kong, Y., Li, W., Han, Q., Zhang, X., Zhu, L. X., Wan, S. W., Liu, Z., Shen, Q., Yang, J., He, H. G., & Zhu, J. (2020). Frontline nurses’ burnout, anxiety, depression, and fear statuses and their associated factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China: A large-scale cross-sectional study. EClinicalMedicine, 24, 1-10. Web.

López-López, I. M., Gómez-Urquiza, J. L., Cañadas, G. R., De la Fuente, E. I., Albendín-García, L., & Cañadas-De la Fuente, G. A. (2019). Prevalence of burnout in mental health nurses and related factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(5), 1032-1041. Web.

Permarupan, P. Y., Al Mamun, A., Samy, N. K., Saufi, R. A., & Hayat, N. (2020). Predicting nurses burnout through quality of work life and psychological empowerment: A study towards sustainable healthcare services in Malaysia. Sustainability, 12(1), 1-18. Web.

Zeng, L. N., Zhang, J. W., Zong, Q. Q., Chan, S. W., Browne, G., Ungvari, G. S., Chen, L. G., & Xiang, Y. T. (2020). Prevalence of burnout in mental health nurses in China: A meta-analysis of observational studies. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 34(3), 141-148. Web.