Stress and Burnout in Nursing

Nursing Burnout
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Nursing Burnout Interventions: What Is Being Done
The article picked for this discussion is “Nursing Burnout Interventions: What Is Being Done” by Barbara J. Henry. In this article, Henry acknowledges the high prevalence of burnout in emotionally demanding clinical oncology settings. The article explores and outlines the reasons for nursing burnout amongst oncology nurses, how far the consequences go and the interventions that have been employed to curb the problem in typical health care institutions. The article also illuminates the nature and causal of compassion fatigue, as a form of burnout amongst oncology nurses. In this case, Henry (2014) describes burnout as the prolonged response to physical or emotional stressors that lead to the development of feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, self-doubt and ineffectiveness. Statistically, averages of 44% of inpatient oncology nurses are reported to experience burnout to some extent (Henry, 2014). The consequences are detrimental impacts to the physical and emotional well-being of the nurses, low satisfaction rates among patients, organizational costs and mortality in worse cases. The article primarily describes interventions for burnout and offers guidance as pertains the implementation of the interventions to the concerned nurses and organizations.
The article explores other sources and researches to gain insight into the proven interventions and to make a list of possibl…