Long working hours, stressful working conditions, and a higher workload have made nurse burnout a very common phenomenon. Burnout among nurses was very common before the pandemic also, but the pandemic made it worse.
As of a 2017, Kronos study, 63% of nurses claimed that they are suffering from burnout.
Burnout is the main cause of reduced productivity and the inability of nurses to
treat patients. Burnout nurses lack compassion toward their patients which results in unsatisfied patients.
Burnout nurses are not safe for either hospitals or patients, their inability to treat the patients impacts patients and hospitals negatively.
Preventing nurse burnout is the combined efforts of hospitals as well as nurses.
In this blog, we are going to discuss 10 tips and strategies to deal with nurse burnout that will help nurses to prevent and solve burnout issues. But before that let’s discuss some factors responsible for burnout.