Abstract
Purpose: The prevalence of occupational burnout is high amongst service professionals and the nursing profession is no different. The rate of occupational burnout amongst nursing professionals and medical professionals is high. The themes or impact of occupational burnout amongst Nurse Practitioners is not well described in the literature. Herein this article describes the investigation into the issue of nurse practitioners and occupational burnout.
Data Sources: Scientific literature review, CINHAHL Complete and other online literature databases and resources. A State of the Science systematic review was conducted to further examine this issue to identify the prevalence of the problem amongst nurse practitioners, to identify factors or specific areas of concern, and to investigate if nurse practitioners’ outcomes toward occupational burnout as they align with similar focus areas in medical practice.
Conclusion: The literature results suggest that higher demands, lower resources, and lower adaptive organizational attitudes are associated with burnout. Themes for female gender, role as a generalist, in family practice or as faculty revealed increased burnout risk. Environment, personal characteristics and qualities are implicated as specific variables accelerating the risk for burnout.
Implications for Practice: The environment, locus of control factors (internal and external) and how nurse practitioners and women providers, are perceived impact care delivery for those directly associated and ultimately impact occupational burnout amongst nurse practitioners.
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Publisher
Gavin Pulishers
Date of publication
Spring 5-29-2020
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4578
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Schlemmer, Tanya G., "Nurse Practitioner Occupational Burnout: A Focus on the Variables and Themes" (2020). Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 47.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4578
Publisher Citation
Schlemmer T (2020) Nurse Practitioner Occupational Burnout: A Focus on the Variables and Themes. Int J Nurs Health Care Res 03: 1160. DOI: 10.29011/2688-9501.101160