Book Description

The author has populated literature that supports nursing burnout and compassion fatigue and the interventions that can be completed to lower those stressors. With years of collecting data and completion of surveys, information has been collected to support the idea of nursing burnout, and how education is the key role in the ending of this phenomenon. Facilities with meager communication and leadership/management incompetence's, have shown to have an increase in the nursing burnout percentages. Educated leadership can transform the position of the nurse to become: A.) Supportive, B.) Resourceful, C.) Operational and D.) Trustworthy. In the working environment, management must encourage the nurse and educate on this issue of burnout and compassion fatigue while finding ways to relieve stressors in the workplace. Coming up with ways to financially plan for and support education on this topic will maintain retention of nurses, and in the long run, save companies large sums of money every year and will motivate their core staff. Registered nurses are the leaders in the health care profession, and they should be the ultimate focus when it comes to taking care of our own. Organizational culture can also be a cause of stressors on a nurse, but it can be an affirmative influence on nursing burnout? Organizations can create tools in order to build preventative ways to relieve stress and compassion fatigue and obtain new ways to get new coping strategies. Education is what is going to benefit the registered nurse on a unit or facility, to be able to function in order to perform patient care safety while dealing with crisis's and unbalanced work environments. This research will prove that nursing burnout and compassion fatigue are of the same and will be accommodating by proving to staff that with education and proper skills, this phenomenon can be stationary in our work environments.