Burnout and First Year Nurses
In order to identify the acceptability and feasibility of a single health care organization, a study was conducted to understand the experiences of nursing students and academic staff of interventions to reduce burnout and increase retention of first year nurses.
The study was
It's a descriptive sequential mixed-methods study conducted by a university and a healthcare organization in the UK. Participants were final year pre-registration nursing students (n = 74) and academics (n = 7) involved in the implementation of the intervention.
A questionnaire adapted from the theoretical framework of acceptability was used to measure pre and post acceptability. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to assess changes in acceptability over time. Qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and field notes were analyzed thematically in accordance with COREQ guidelines. Data were collected between February and December 2019.
Results.
155 questionnaires, interviews with students, and two focus groups involving seven faculty members were completed, and the intervention was generally perceived as acceptable, with a significant positive increase in acceptability scores over time.
Student nurses felt that the intervention equipped them with the skills and experience to provide lasting personal benefit, and there are challenges associated with the practice environment and academic assessment pressures. The reported benefits are consistent with known protective factors against burnout and leaving the profession.In conclusion, it is suggested that affiliation and mentoring partner planning may be useful as interventions that do not cause burnout or leave the profession for first year nurses.
Brook, J., Aitken, L.M., MacLaren, JA. et al. An intervention to decrease burnout and increase retention of early career nurses: a mixed methods study of Acceptability and feasibility. BMC Nurs 20, 19 (2021). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00524-9
Summary
It was stated that words such as "understaffed" from the medical institution where the first-year nurses will be working will cause the most stress and pressure, and that later burnout and lack of a sense of accomplishment can be predicted.
Therefore, building bonds with senior nurses and other people in the workplace is considered to be one of the countermeasures against stress and pressure for first-year nurses, and the countermeasure that can be taken by the individual is to be exposed to a wider range of knowledge and to practice methods to cope with stress and maximize personal happiness.Because of the highly specialized nature of the profession, he said that burnout and turnover could be reduced if there was an environment in which people could prepare themselves and medical institutions to help them deal with these issues.
