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INTRO TO TOPIC:
In my experience working in Critical Care, especially during and after the pandemic, nurse burnout has become more of a problem in healthcare and the functioning of hospital facilities. Nurse
burnout is a clinical problem that causes workload imbalance. A lack of communication between
nurses and doctors can lead to stress and burnout, which harms the standard of treatment and
patient satisfaction (Prasad et al., 2021). According to the WHO, it is an occupational phenomenon
ineffectively controlled by ongoing working stress. Burnout can be caused by emotional, physical,
and mental exhaustion and loss of enthusiasm, decreasing nurse productivity. This problem lowers the standard of treatment and patient outcomes; this topic is a problem as it reduces morale in the work nurses provide. Nurses who are psychologically distressed and exhausted are proven to need improvement in their communication skills and provide their patients, their families, and fellow
healthcare colleagues and patients with partial and imprecise information.
Patients will receive poor care prolonging their recovery and increasing hospital stays. The more
they are in the hospital, the more financial bills continue increasing, burdening family members. The healthcare system’s goal to offer quality patient care is not attainable, and nurse turnover may
increase. Furthermore, the crowding of patients in facilities due to slowed recovery time might
increase the prevalence of nosocomial infection among patients and healthcare workers.
Significance of the Problem:
– Nurse burnout is crucial because it affects nurses’ quality of life, level of performance,
organizational commitment, and likelihood that they will quit their jobs (Prasad et al., 2021).
Additionally, it raises turnover rates and degrades nursing care standards.
– Approximately 50% of patients managed by tired and less motivated nurses experience high
incidents of medication errors and falls, significantly affecting their recovery process (Prasad et al., 2021). The staffing ratios for nurses to that patients should be 1:2 or fewer.
However, it should depend on the unit of practice, albeit the intensive care unit or the emergency
room.
– Concerning nurse burnout, the nurse ratio to patients is high; using the Intensive Care Unit as an example, it can sometimes be 1:3 or 1:4 when the typical patient load is 1:2. Therefore, the
healthcare management should address employee hiring and satisfaction in their roles. The
patient-to-staff ratio should be reduced to improve the quality of nursing care. Nurses’ workload, a primary contributor to burnout, is reduced by hiring and keeping additional personnel.
Prasad, K., McLoughlin, C., Stillman, M., Poplau, S., Goelz, E., Taylor, S., Nankivil, N., Brown, R., Linzer, M., Cappelucci, K., Barbouche, M., & Sinsky, C. A. (2021). Prevalence and correlates of stress and burnout among U.S. healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national cross-sectional survey study. EClinicalMedicine, 35, 100879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100879
What Is Nurse Burnout? | Nursejournal.org. (2021, September 29). Nursejournal.org. https://nursejournal.org/resources/nurse-burnout/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20World%20Health
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