1LITERATURE REVIEW
The Incidence of Burnout in Psychiatric Nursing
Evidence Based Nursing Research and Practice
April 15, 2017
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response (nursingworld.org). Nursing gives us purpose, it gives us remarkable human endeavors by healing the wounded, which bring allure, but after a while that aspect no longer have the specialness of rejuvenation and creativity that good kind of arousal. Instead, because of the many factors including things going on in our personal lives we loss that drive and become more emotional fragile
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Burn out is exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration (merriam-webster.com). In this case study the researchers survived forensic nurses compared to psychiatric nurses in relations to stress and burnout, and found surprise that psychiatric nurses displayed higher burnout, and found lower satisfaction (Happell, Martin and Pinikahand, 2003). The results were found to be quit shocking being that forensic nurses care for the criminal charged mental patients, who usually are murders, rapists or habitual offenders, who have long sentences and do not care about causing nurses trouble, because they feel they don’t have anything to …show more content…
The authors gave enough information determine the implication of burnout between the two types of nurses. The researchers used the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Nursing Stress Scale; the findings indicated that relatively few forensic nurses suffered from ‘high’ levels of burnout with considerably more forensic nurses recording ‘low’ levels of burnout (Happell, Martin and Pinikahand, 2003). The study also found that psychiatric nursing is more stressful, dangerous and unpredictable, which causes burnout more quickly (Happell, Martin and Pinikahand, 2003). Nursing implication are the things which occur which are up to the nurse to resolve (allnurses.com). However, in this article there was not sufficient information on this