Is it me or you? A team approach to mitigate burnout in critical care.

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• Personal Author:
  Costa DK ; Jun J
• Description:
  Burnout - a result of chronic occupational stress and defined as a combination of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a diminished sense of individual accomplishment - is rapidly becoming a serious issue for healthcare workers around the world, including nurses. The importance of addressing burnout is more urgent than ever; more than half of the 4 million registered nurses in the United States feeling various degrees of chronic job stress and burnout. Critical care nurses may be at especially high risk for burnout and burnout-related conditions. They care for the sickest population in intense environments, managing complex medical care and multiple technologies while providing emotional and social support to their patients and families. The combination of unrelenting stress, heavy workload, demanding physical and emotional environments, and a general feeling of powerlessness can create an imbalance of demand and control, leading to the development of psychological distress. In a study by Mealer and colleagues, 86% of critical care nurses in their sample had symptoms consistent with burnout, 16% with anxiety, and 22% with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thus, burnout is quite prevalent in clinicians, most especially critical care nurses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Burnout; Occupational Stress; Nurses; Critical Care; Storytelling; Teamwork; Social Support Nurses; Nursing; Health Care Workers; Job Stress; Mental Health; Work Organization; Worker Health;
• ISSN:
  0899-5885
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  395-406
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065819
• Citation:
  Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 2020 Sep; 32(3):395-406
• Contact Point Address:
  Jin Jun PhD, RN, School of Nursing, The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, 400 North Ingalls Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
• Email:
  jinjun@umich.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3c67bcab3014b7b04d0e0c983f158eb06dc4767d4885420e875efec4b5a10b1a1a939f8da86adc50c0f5a8b1ac55e859a46b6adf1fb646d7791e33736e151ad2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249556/cdc_249556_DS1.pdf
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