Developing Resilience
Resilience can be defined as sustaining well-being in the face of adversity by harnessing internal and/or external resources. Many of the strategies that promote highly effective teams, such as regulating emotions, self-reflection, and inclusion, may also contribute to team resilience. Nurse leaders can facilitate social connections, optimism, self-care, mindfulness practices, and meaningful recognition as strategies to promote nurse resilience. Resilience may mitigate many of the harmful effects for nurses working in the high demanding health care work environment. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 9, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Victoria Hughes, Mary A. Bemker, Lynn C. Parsons Source Type: research
Nursing Burnout and Its Impact on Health
Burnout in nurses can have negative consequences for the organizational health of the institution and the mental and physical health of the nurse. In this article, the authors identify the incidence of burnout in nursing and risk and protective factors. Next, they discuss the relationship between burnout and health, highlighting the critical relationship between burnout, stress, inflammation, and declines in physical health. Lastly, they review articles from the Zangaro and colleagues ’ systematic review related to mental and physical health to create a picture of the existing research on burnout and health. (Source: Nur...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 9, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Virginia Sullivan, Vickie Hughes, Debra Rose Wilson Source Type: research
Understanding and Managing Nurse Burnout
Burnout among nurses has been present for many years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout was intensified by extremely stressful work environments, the emotional strain associated with witnessing increased mortality of patients, continual stress of working long hours in understaffed units, the physical strain of constantly wearing personal protective equipment, and having limited opportunities for rest and recovery between shifts. This supplement issue of Nursing Clinics of North America consists of 11 articles that discuss various aspects of burnout in the nursing workforce. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 9, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: George A. Zangaro, Dorothy Dulko, Debra Sullivan Tags: Preface Source Type: research
Impact of Career Burnout Across Nursing
Discussions surrounding burnout within nursing have increased significantly. Nursing burnout has been associated with an increase in nursing turnover and financial demand on health care facilities and health systems to onboard and train new staff.1 Burnout is found across all care settings: acute inpatient care, primary care, public and community health, nursing leadership, and nursing education. Furthermore, an individual ’s length of time and seniority within nursing does not provide a safeguard from burnout. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 9, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Benjamin Smallheer Tags: Foreword Source Type: research
Early Career Burnout in Nursing
Burnout syndrome within the early career nursing population is an issue that impacts not only the individual but also impacts the workforce, the organization, and patient care. Components of burnout are associated with 3 main areas and the contributing factors to burnout can be addressed at the individual, organizational, and institutional levels. Efforts to reduce the contributing factors and improve work satisfaction within this population will have a lasting effect on early career nurses ’ commitment to the profession. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 8, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Marcos Gayol, Tracy Lookingbill Source Type: research
Factors Associated with Burnout in the United States Versus International Nurses
Nurse burnout is a serious global problem that is associated with adverse job factors. In this article, research on burnout as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory is reviewed from 2000 to 2019, specifically analyzing job factors associated with nurse burnout and comparing US with international findings. Most of the reviewed articles found a significant relationship between nurse burnout and a nurse ’s intention to leave their job, job stress, nurse satisfaction, and workplace violence. There were very few articles reporting on research done in the United States, whereas most of them described international research...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 8, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Debra Sullivan, Kathleen M. White, Christine Frazer Source Type: research
How Do We Reduce Burnout In Nursing?
Burnout syndrome has been defined as a state of chronic stress characterized by high levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization with low levels of professional efficacy. The effects of nurse burnout include poor job satisfaction and turnover. Nurses ’ physical and mental well-being are both essential to sustaining a healthy nursing workforce with factors such as an empowering work environment showing positive effects on reducing burnout. Formal and informal individual and organizational approaches to supporting novice nurses’ transition and experienced nurses’ sustained practice fulfillment are key to addre...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - February 8, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Dorothy Dulko, Betty J. Kohal Source Type: research
Comparison of Nurse Burnout, before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article looks at a history of pandemics and examines the research related to nurse burnout during previous and current pandemics. We conclude with recommendations for evidence-based interventions to decrease factors associated with nurse burnout. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 8, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Debra Sullivan, Virginia Sullivan, Deborah Weatherspoon, Christine Frazer Source Type: research
Weight Bias and Stigma
Weight bias and stigma exist in a variety of realms in our society (media, education, employment, and health care), and unfortunately many view it as a socially acceptable form of discrimination. Patients with obesity often avoid scheduling appointments for health promotion visits and routine care due to perceived weight bias and stigma from their health care provider. Within the health care setting, it is important that health care providers strategically focus on reducing obesity bias and provide high-quality obesity management. People-first language should be used and waiting rooms and examination rooms should be accomm...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Sharon M. Fruh, Rebecca J. Graves, Caitlyn Hauff, Susan G. Williams, Heather R. Hall Source Type: research
The Influence of Obesity on Care of Adults with Cardiovascular Disease
Obesity is a strong independent predictor of cardiovascular disease. In this article, we briefly review the physiologic effects of obesity on the cardiovascular system, discuss how obesity influences history taking, physical assessment, diagnostic testing, and treatment of patients with common cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and chronic heart failure. Implications for nursing practice will be shared with a focus on lifestyle modifications to be included in patient education. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Leslie L. Davis, Melissa Z. Nolan Source Type: research
Systemic and Environmental Contributors to Obesity Inequities in Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups
Obesity is a multifactorial disease that disproportionally affects diverse racial and ethnic groups. Structural racism influences racial inequities in obesity prevalence through environmental factors, such as racism and discrimination, socioeconomic status, increased levels of stress, and bias in the health care delivery system. Researchers, clinicians, and policy makers must work to address the environmental and systematic barriers that contribute to health inequities in the United States. Specifically, clinicians should quantitatively and qualitatively assess environmental and social factors and proactively engage in pat...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Faith A. Newsome, Clarence C. Gravlee, Michelle I. Cardel Source Type: research
Obesity and Men's Health
The health outcomes of men are significantly worse, when compared with their female counterparts, for the top 15 leading causes of death nationwide. At this time, men are not actively engaged in the health care system, creating a challenge for those managing patients in the clinical setting. The premature morbidity and mortality of men financially burdens the health care system and places a financial strain in secondary and tertiary preventive care that is simply not sustainable. Obesity is a catalyst that fuels disease and is directly responsible for the pathogenesis for the disease claiming the lives of men nationwide. (...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Ryan Holley-Mallo, Angela Golden Source Type: research
Obesity in Women
Women who are obese are at risk for conditions that are different from those experienced by men. Some of these conditions are gender based; others are socially determined. In societies where appearance and being thin are valued and promoted in the media, advertising, literature, and other areas, women who are obese are subject to biases and stereotyping that impact them socially, financially, and academically. Obesity should be assessed and managed in the same way as other chronic disorders with patient-centered care, respect, and support from the health care team. Clinicians must approach the subject of weight with sensit...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Denise G. Link Source Type: research
Obesity and Children
This article shares how nurses in multiple practice areas can make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and adolescents with obesity. (Source: Nursing Clinics of North America)
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Nancy T. Browne Source Type: research
Key Causes and Contributors of Obesity
This article provides a focused overview of key known causes of obesity and factors that contribute to obesity. Obesity ultimately results from impaired energy storage mechanisms, such as dysregulation of hunger, satiety, digestion, fat storage, and metabolic rate. In addition, myriad contributors promote its expression, including dietary factors, sleep quality and duration, psychological health and well-being, and tobacco cessation, among others. This article concludes with a discussion of the clinical relevance of causes and contributors in obesity prevention and treatment, which is paramount to providing effective, indi...
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, Kristina S. Petersen, Chelsi Webster Source Type: research
