Burnout in nurses : Causes and effects of burnout on the personal and working life of nurses: A literature review
Wangui, Allan Kimani; Muthee, Daniel Wainaina (2018)
Wangui, Allan Kimani
Muthee, Daniel Wainaina
Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018121221236
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Burnout in nurses has a negative and severe impact on their personal and work life. This goes a long way to even affect the safety of patients and the organization as a whole.
The purpose of this thesis was to study the causes of burnout in nurses and what effects it had on their personal and work life. The aim of this thesis was to provide knowledge about how burnout affected nurses’ personal lives and their work-life.
The authors carried the study based on literature review. Data used in the study was collected from reliable academic databases that were offered at Centria University of Applied Sciences which included Science Direct, Cinahl (EBSCO) and SAGE. Content analysis method was used to analyze research findings.
Results from this study show that organizational, occupational, social and personal trait factors are the main contributors to burnout in nurses.
The results show that burnout is common in nurses working in different departments and settings. Burnout in nurses is worldwide problem. The effects of burnout are seen to affect nurses personal and work lives in a negative way.
Nurses’ health gets affected negatively physically, mentally and emotionally. Burnout causes emotional exhaustion, mental health conditions and physical exhaustion in nurses. Burnout causes a general negative attitude towards life, which even results to suicide tendencies, changing of work places and many sick-leaves among nurses. Nurses find it hard to balance work life, personal and family life becoming depressed. Burnout hugely affects the way nurses perform their duties at work. They become careless in decision making, are more absent from work, less innovative, develop quitting attitude towards nursing profession and this causes risks to patients health and safety. Nurse leaders with burnout are prone to leaving their current positions and fail to mentor future leaders. Student mentorship is affected negatively by burnout.
The purpose of this thesis was to study the causes of burnout in nurses and what effects it had on their personal and work life. The aim of this thesis was to provide knowledge about how burnout affected nurses’ personal lives and their work-life.
The authors carried the study based on literature review. Data used in the study was collected from reliable academic databases that were offered at Centria University of Applied Sciences which included Science Direct, Cinahl (EBSCO) and SAGE. Content analysis method was used to analyze research findings.
Results from this study show that organizational, occupational, social and personal trait factors are the main contributors to burnout in nurses.
The results show that burnout is common in nurses working in different departments and settings. Burnout in nurses is worldwide problem. The effects of burnout are seen to affect nurses personal and work lives in a negative way.
Nurses’ health gets affected negatively physically, mentally and emotionally. Burnout causes emotional exhaustion, mental health conditions and physical exhaustion in nurses. Burnout causes a general negative attitude towards life, which even results to suicide tendencies, changing of work places and many sick-leaves among nurses. Nurses find it hard to balance work life, personal and family life becoming depressed. Burnout hugely affects the way nurses perform their duties at work. They become careless in decision making, are more absent from work, less innovative, develop quitting attitude towards nursing profession and this causes risks to patients health and safety. Nurse leaders with burnout are prone to leaving their current positions and fail to mentor future leaders. Student mentorship is affected negatively by burnout.