Nurse Burnout as a Clinical Issue
- It is a physical, emotional and mental state caused by chronic overwork
- It is also caused by lack of support from other healthcare professionals and lack of job fulfillment
- The pressure from team mates of job demands also cause burnout
- If unaddressed, it leads to depression and poor delivery of care
- It leads to poor patient outcomes
Use of Keywords
- Choosing search terms-such as work burnout, nurses burnout and turnover, mental health of nurses at workplace, nursing work stressors
- Getting a list of words and phrases in line with PICO model relating to the topic of nurse burnout
- Choosing important keywords from the short search phrases such as: nurse, burnout, workload, stressors, mental health etc.
- Searching for the key words and phrases in the results that appear from a search
Research databases used in the research
- Science Direct- deals with sources related to life, physical science, medicine, technical fields and also some humanities and social sciences
- Psyc INFO-has peer reviewed literature on mental health and behavioral sciences
- TRIP Database-Has evidence based clinical materials, guidelines and tools
- PubMed-Has research projects and books related to human health and medicine