Concept Analysis Of Nurse Burnout

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Understanding Role Stress in Relation to Nurse Burnout A Concept Analysis Recent literature reports that there is a nursing shortage and it is continually increasing. Data released by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011) projects that the shortage, would increase to 260,000 by the year 2025. AACN (2011) also reported that 13% of newly registered nurses changed jobs and 37% were ready to change within a year. A study conducted reports that there is a correlation between higher nursing workloads and nurse burnout, retention rates, job dissatisfaction and adverse patient outcomes (Vahey & Aiken, 2004). Among the nurses surveyed in the study, over 40% stated that they were suffering from burnout while 1 in 5 nurses intended Typically this type of concept analysis, consist of an eight-step approach. The steps included in this method are defined as first selecting a concept, determine the purpose of analysis, identify the uses of the concept, define and determine the attributes, identify a model case, identify related cases, identify the consequences and antecedents and finally define the empirical referents (McEwen & Willis, 2011). To complete this concept analysis, the concept was defined and a literature search was performed. For the purposes of the paper, role stress was the concept and it was defined as “any physical or psychological strain experienced by an individual, who needs greater abilities or resources than available, in order to perform the role which has revealed disparity to the expected role currently being practiced, through an appraisal” (Riahi, 2011, pg. As stated previously, some of the effects of role stress and burnout, are low retention rates, high staff turnover, decreased quality of care and decreased job satisfaction. According to data, stress has been shown to cause 40% of turnover and half of absenteeism in the workplace. Empirical referent By definition, the empirical referent, are classes of actual events that demonstrate the presence of the occurrence or the actual concept. The tool designed to assess the occurrence is the Nurse Stress Scale, (NSS) which is a questionnaire that assesses situations that could potentially be stressful. These tools are only designed to detect symptoms already experienced related to stress. These tools are not great for primary prevent needs (Riahi, 2011). Model

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