Nursing Leadership Style and Nurse Burnout Nursing Leadership Style and Nurse Burnout Nursing is a stressful and demanding profession. Nurses constantly faced with people’s problems, suffering and needs; puts the nursing profession at a high risk for burnout. Nursing leadership plays a significant role in how nurses feel about their work and handle patients (Kanste, 2008). Having worked on a cardiac telemetry unit, which was high stress with high patient turnover and dealing with a manger that was not approachable or visible, has made me realize that burnout was what I was experiencing. Leadership Style This article delves into the different types of leadership style such as transformational, transactional and laissez-faire and there effect on nurse burnout.
Introduction Burnout is a state of emotional overtiredness that occurs after performing stressful work for long period of time. Working as a nurse for an extended period without rest and dealing with stressful situations can easily cause burnout. According to Cherniss (1980), burnout is defined as “a process in which a previously committed professional disengages from his or her work in response to stress and strain experienced in the job” (as cited in Sherring and Night, 2009, p.1234). The people who are hard-working, idealistic and perfectionist are more likely to experience burnout than average people (Catalano, 2012, p.248). Burnout in nursing is one of the major problems that occur due to the shortage of staff members, variable shift works, dissatisfaction and stressors of workplace that can lead to physical, emotional, social and long-term career effects to the nurses.
The term professional burnout is described as “physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from long-term involvement in work situations that are emotionally demanding” (Wlodarczyk, & Lazarewicz, 2011 p.848), highlighting how the work place environment is directly affecting an individual’s health and well-being. When trying to connect the concepts of stress and professional burnout, studies indicted a high level of prolonged stress leads into professional burnout (Gandi & Dagona, 2011). Professional burnout in nursing has been published in multiple professional journals including; research, ethics, nursing management, as well as other
Several factors have contributed to Registered Nurses (RNs) leaving clinical nursing practice. These includes job dissatisfaction, increase in age of working nurses, verbal and physical abuse from managers, physicians and co-workers, lack of support from members of staff, fatigue and exhaustion due to work overload, and retention and recruitment. This situation can be improved by ensuring adequate nurse to patient ratios by reducing work load, promoting respects of nurses, giving rewards and recognizing nurses for a job well done, empowering nurses and nursing management, and increasing recreational activities for nurses to reduce fatigue and burnout. Purpose and Research Questions The study was conducted to identify the factors why RNs are leaving clinical nursing practice, what their expectation from the Nursing Management, job satisfaction and factors influencing retention of nurses. The research question for this study was “What is the experience of RNs who leave clinical nursing?
Solutions for Nursing Personnel Shortages Executive Summary Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. Employees simply want to be heard and sympathized with. Nowadays the nursing shortage has caused many problems in the healthcare industry. First and foremost, the quality of care being provided to patients is declining due to the fact that there are not as many nurses to care for the patient appropriately. As a matter of fact, the workload being dumped on the employees is steadily increasing.
Warning Signs for Five Concepts of Compassion Fatigue Physical Manifestations Compassion fatigue can manifest itself through physical symptoms. Some signs associated with compassion fatigue are weariness, loss of strength, reduced output, diminished performance, loss of endurance, and increased physical complaints such as gastrointestinal complaints, frequent headaches, back pains, hypertension, and insomnia (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010). Illness can lead to increase in sick calls that lead to increase in the work loads of other nurses, which then affects the safety and quality of care the patients receive. Emotional Manifestations Compassion fatigue can also manifest itself through emotional disturbances. Those suffering
The third article focuses on a case study in which an elderly woman was abused and no proper investigation was completed within a nursing home setting. Analysis and conclusion of the research will be provided at the end of the paper. Problem Identification Identifying elder abuse within a long term care setting can be difficult. Nursing home residents often have poor safety awareness and a high rate of falls and related injuries. (Lachs & Boyer, 2002) It is sometimes hard to determine if a fracture or bruise comes from an unpreventable incident in a confused elder or if it came from abuse or negligence.
Week Five: Systematic Article Review Martha Mireles NURS 518 December 24,2012 Margaret L. Colucciello Week Five: Systematic Article Review Background Information The profession of nursing is associated with a highly stressful environment. Dealing with people on a daily basis who are sick or diseased is hard enough without the external environmental stressors that accompany nursing. Things such as working long hours, working short handed and attitudes of co-workers can always contribute to stress and raise the level of stress. Nursing students on the other hand have all of the above stressors with the added stressor of academic performance. With the problem at hand implementation of stress management interventions of both nurses and students have been suggested (Galbraith,& Brown, 2011).
There are arguments to support that many older people leave hospital less able to function or mobilise than when they were admitted (de Morton, Keating & Jeffs 2007). This is due to the occurrence of deconditioning, a risk for many elderly patients admitted to an acute hospital setting. Deconditioning refers to the significant decline in the functional ability of patients, and is generally associated with prolonged bed rest and immobility (Kortebein, 2008). The term is used to describe the physiological changes caused by inactivity, with virtually every body system affected (Eliopoulos, 2010), and it also incorporates functional losses in mental status, ability to accomplish activities of daily living (ADLs) and a decrease in muscle mass and strength (Gillis, MacDonald & MacIsaac 2008). Hospitalisation is often the cause of deconditioning, particularly due to the focus on bed rest in order to recover from illness, or the limited mobility resulting from surgery.
The fatigued nurse becomes overwhelmed and can easily make mistakes such as medication errors or performing procedures on the wrong patient. They also begin to lose compassion for their patient and become more task oriented. Often times it gets to a point where they are just showing up for work and lose sight of their original desire to help an ill patient get better or make a difference in their patients day. We go into nursing with the intention to help people who need it and share with patients our nurturing personalities but that sometimes gets lost in the tangled web of stressful situations, long work weeks, long shifts, increasing patient-to-nurse ratios, constantly changing field, and not enough education on the support systems in place or methods for coping. One thing I’ve noticed to be very common with nurses is remembering to take care of themselves.