Workplace burnout is a common issue every industry is facing today, and the nursing industry is no different. Nurse burnout is the major challenge the healthcare industry is facing today.
Due to long working hours, work-life imbalance, emotional and physical exhaustion nurses feel burnout. Majority of the nurses are on the verge of leaving either nursing jobs or their professions due to burnout.
According to the Medscape Nurse career satisfaction report 2021, 34% of LPNs and 35% of RNs reported burnout.
What Is Nurse Burnout?
Burnout is a kind of work-related stress. It is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.
Nurse burnout is also the same. Due to constant exposure to suffering and dying patients, overtime, disrespect towards nurses, they don’t feel any zeal or enthusiasm for the work, always feeling tired and losing interest in the job. And this is called nurse burnout.
Shortage of nurses is the most prevailing issue in the US today, and the main factors causing this shortage is nurse burnout.
As per the July 2021 Nursing Central Survey, 91% of Nurses considered leaving or were actively looking to leave the nursing profession.
To overcome this, we need to prevent nurse burnout, and to prevent it we have to recognise the signs of burnout.
Let’s see some prominent signs of burnout in nurses which every healthcare organization should look at and try to avoid.