Nurse Burnout In Emergency Room Nursing

Emergency room nursing is an experienced registered nurse whose focus is providing critical care and dedicated treatment to patients that are either critically wounded or severely ill. These nurses specialize in rapid assessments and treatments of their patients conditions. It is with great responsibility that the Emergency Room Nurse work swiftly and responsibly under a variety of different circumstances. Due the stresses and required skill set of emergency room, nurses must do a good job of utilizing their abilities and must possess good time management skills, these demands ultimately leads to burnout. Nurse burnout in the emergency department

Emergency room nursing is an experience that touches emotions that range from joyful moments

However, with the passing of several shifts displeasure soon becomes burnout which is also known as exhaustion. In fact, burnout in the Emergency Room is comprised of factors which include understaffing both professionally and ancillary, patient to nurse aggression and unappreciation from leadership (Hlaing, Olson, Roso and Stutzman 2017) which contributes highly to employee dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction is the main contributor to the problems concerning the retention of

Throughout my career I have been threatened and even physically abused by patients with limited protection. In addition, I have witnessed physical altercations in the waiting room between patients waiting to be to be seen by Advanced Practice Nurses or a Medical Doctor. It is situations like these that have contributed to burnout and made me question if my safety were important to administration. It is these incidents of abuse that has caused me to consider leaving bedside nursing to work in a clinic setting.

Currently, I am employed at a 983-bed public level one trauma center in the heart of a large city where the Emergency Room department holds on average 180 patients per hour with issues that include the common cold, psychiatric problems, motor vehicle accidents and gunshot wounds. It is important to note that for the department to meet the demands of the patient census the scheduling would have to reflect 40 plus nurses and at least 20 ancillary staff. The appropriate staffing allows for nurse to patient ratio to be balanced and provides better care experience for the patients in the