Nurse Burnout Research Paper

Heather K. Spence Laschinger Joan Finegan Piotr Wilk

New Graduate Burnout: The Impact Of Professional Practice Environment,Workplace Civility, And Empowerment
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The future of professional nursing depends on finding ways to create high-quality wo rk env i r o nments that retain newcomers to the profession. The purpose of this study was to examine the combined effect of supportive professional practice environments, civil wo rking relationships, and empowerment on new graduates’ ex p e riences of bu rnout at wo rk . The results support previous evidence of the importance of wo rking environments that enable new graduates to practice according to professional standards learned in their educational programs. Further, the results provide a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of workplace conditions on new graduate bu rnout by demonstrating the additive value of wo rking in collegial wo rk settings in which nurses…show more content…
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