Prevention of burnout among nursing staff: A literature review
Vokhlacheva, Anastasia; Shakori, Aazam; Farzanehkari, Parisa (2018)
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201801311877
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201801311877
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Community nursing is associated with stress and burnout, which can impact heavily on the individuals and organizations. These impacts can be both economically and also the negatives effects on the quality of patient care. The purpose of this thesis is to provide evidence based information about prevention of burnout among nurses. This thesis aimed to review what kinds of interventions are needed to be done by nurses and organizations to prevent this phenomenon among nurses in order to reduce the prevalence of this syndrome among health care professionals and its consequences.
The research method that was used in this thesis is literature review. Data were collected from academic nursing data bases including CINAHL (EBSCO), ProQuest, PubMed Central and ScienceDirect. After using thesis search words in advance search machine of these databases considering some inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 articles were achieved. 11 out of these 44 articles were chosen to be reviewed in this thesis based on their title, abstract and full text.
Collected data were analysed using inductive content analysis method. The findings were categorized in four major themes considering the party that should implement those measures for preventing burnout in nurses. These parties consist of workplace, nurses as a community in the ward, and nurses as individuals. Various methods have been found to be efficient in preventing this phenomenon among nurses.
Since in collecting the data for this thesis there was no locational limitation, the data that were used, were from different parts of the world with different working conditions, cultures, and resources. The authors recommend further researches to evaluate the efficiency of suggested methods among Finnish nurses.
The research method that was used in this thesis is literature review. Data were collected from academic nursing data bases including CINAHL (EBSCO), ProQuest, PubMed Central and ScienceDirect. After using thesis search words in advance search machine of these databases considering some inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 articles were achieved. 11 out of these 44 articles were chosen to be reviewed in this thesis based on their title, abstract and full text.
Collected data were analysed using inductive content analysis method. The findings were categorized in four major themes considering the party that should implement those measures for preventing burnout in nurses. These parties consist of workplace, nurses as a community in the ward, and nurses as individuals. Various methods have been found to be efficient in preventing this phenomenon among nurses.
Since in collecting the data for this thesis there was no locational limitation, the data that were used, were from different parts of the world with different working conditions, cultures, and resources. The authors recommend further researches to evaluate the efficiency of suggested methods among Finnish nurses.