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Perceived Stress and Burnout in Nurses: A Conceptual Approach
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MAJOR NAVJEET KAUR, DR. HARMINDER KAUR GUJRAL
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Nurses are backbone of the hospitals as they are working day and night for the well-being of the patients. They are working in multi-dimensional structural hospitals, that are associated with patient outcomes differently. Therefore, burnout among nurses at workplace is a universal problem. Nurses play a vital role in taking care of patients and managing the relatives of the patients in the absence of the doctors. Extended working hours for nurses are quite common in many hospitals, but there is very little consideration given to these long hours working, though it effects patients’ care and the nurses wellbeing too. The poor nurse-patient ratio, lack of management support, short staffing, unanticipated changes in staffing with fluctuating needs of patients results in unpredictable length of actual shifts, but unfortunately, they are unable to express the consequences of these problems on them. While taking care of patients’ physical, emotional, psychological needs, unfortunately nurses neglect their own physical and psychological well-being. Sometimes lack of respect and recognition for nurses affect consumers’ health care as they are not able to provide the competent service because of their own state of mind. The personality factors which contribute to stress, need to be studied and the coping mechanism to overcome these stressors needs to be identified and brought into practice for the well-being of the nurses.
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stress, burnout, work life balance, personality factors, coping mechanism
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.03.475
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