Burnout and Coping Strategies among Nurses: A Literature Review

Abstract

The concept of stress plays an important role in an occupational area, especially health care setting. Health care professionals are repeatedly exposed to this stress, especially nursing personnel. The response to this chronic stress is termed burnout. In other words, burnout means giving more time, energy, and effort to work for a long period of time leading to exhaustion both mentally and physically. In order to reduce these burnout symptoms, an individual tries to adopt certain strategies to minimize his/her negative feelings. This is known as a coping strategy. Due to the increase in workload, advancement in science and technology, quality patient care, these symptoms have escalated which have drawn attention to health care organizations. Many strategies have been developed to reduced these symptoms and develop a positive environment for nurses to work within it. Keywords: Burnout, coping strategies, nurses.

A comparative study on stress management of working and non-working women with special reference to Rewa district

“…Depression is common in women regardless of the type of work they do, as a domestic worker or as a professional, because of their gender roles. Mudakavi (2017) [3] , in her study on the level of stress of housewives found that among the 100 homeowners (35%) of them had mild stress, 61 (61%) moderate stress and 4 (04%) had high levels of depression. Among the hundreds of homeowners, 90 (90%) of them had moderate coping strategies and 10 (10%) of them had poor coping strategies.…”