Nurse burnout in a high stress health care environment: prognosis better than expected?

Hall, Elizabeth

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Nurse burnout in a high stress health care environment: prognosis better than expected?

Hall, Elizabeth

Cite this item: Hall, E. (2005). Nurse burnout in a high stress health care environment: prognosis better than expected? (Working Paper No. 05/01). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1581

Permanent link to OUR Archive version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1581

Date: 2005

Publisher: University of Otago

Pages: 36

Series number: 05/01

Keywords: nurses; burnout; MBI; job stress; health care environment; Empowerment

Research Type: Working Paper

Abstract:

This article presents literature-based evidence from North America, Canada, Israel, England and Wales, New Zealand, Australia demonstrating that despite data showing that occupational stress levels are rising in nursing, and given that nursing is an endemically stressful profession, there does not seem to be a widespread concomitant increase in reported severity of burnout. Instead, many instances of low, decreasing and in some cases, virtually nonexistent degrees of burnout exist. Two theoretical explanations for the existence of low burnout and the implications for the nursing profession are discussed.

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