Burnout in Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers during COVID-19

Maunder, Robert G.; Heeney, Natalie D.; Strudwick, Gillian; Shin, Hwayeon Danielle; O’Neill, Braden; Young, Nancy K.; Jeffs, Lianne; Barrett, Kali; Bodmer, Nicolas S.; Born, Karen; Hopkins, Jessica; Jüni, Peter; Perkhun, Anna; Price, David; Razak, Fahad; Mushquash, Christopher; Mah, Linda

doi:10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.46.1.0

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“…Understaffing leads to increased overwork and burnout. These conditions lead to depersonalization and a lack of compassion as the main component of burnout, which is increasingly recognized and prevalent not only in Slovenia but worldwide (45)(46)(47). Hospital-based healthcare workers have experienced substantially increased burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic.…”

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“…Hospital-based healthcare workers have experienced substantially increased burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, before the Covid-19 pandemic, severe burnout was typically found in Canada in 20%-40% of healthcare workers; however, by spring 2021, rates >60% were found among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals (47). Therefore, sustaining the health professions will benefit from additional employment of interprofessional team members and retention of current staff through financial compensation and promotion of supportive workplace characteristics such as good communication and supportive leadership, continued professional development, appropriate autonomy, and collegial relationships among team members.…”

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Communication in interprofessional health care teams from the perspective of patients and staff

Erjavec

Knavs²,

Bedenčič³

2022

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Introduction: The quality of communication among health care professionals is an important aspect of interprofessional teamwork. As there is a gap in research on communication in interprofessional teams as assessed by team members and patients, the aim of this study was to analyze interprofessional team communication and team participation in a Slovenian general hospital from the perspective of health care professionals and patients.Methods: This was a case report study using a multi-methods study with a survey (n = 150) and a qualitative approach with focus groups (n = 27) and in-depth interviews with interprofessional team members (n = 22) and patients (n = 20).Results: Interprofessional team members rated communication as relatively good, being least satisfied with equal participation in team communication, especially communication with physicians due to interdisciplinary rivalry. Nursing assistants particularly emphasized the lack of time for communication with patients, dissatisfaction with communication with physicians, and overload with documentation. The patients were relatively satisfied with the communication of the team members. However, they criticized the lack of communication between team members and patients and inconsistent messages of team members.Conclusion: Communication in interprofessional teams was moderately good in this setting. Low staffing was a primary driver of communication problems

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Communication in interprofessional health care teams from the perspective of patients and staff

Erjavec

Knavs²,

Bedenčič³

2022

JHSCI

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“…The emphasis on burnout being elusive to self-identification is a strong reminder of the need to check in regularly with teammates and colleagues, both formally and informally, to facilitate early identification of burnout. Suggestions from the literature to facilitate identification of burnout include: manager check-ins, peer support programs, Employee Assistance Programs, and Spiritual Care programs, to name a few ( 24 , 25 ).…”

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“…Participants highlighted the need for separation from work as an important component of self-preservation. Similarly from an organizational perspective, recent literature has highlighted that leadership can support employee self-care by modeling good work-life balance and healthy boundaries with work, including taking paid time off, leaving work on time, and avoiding being constantly engaging with work outside of work hours/emergencies ( 25 ).…”

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Exploring Pediatric Nurses’ Perspectives on Their Work Environment, Work Attitudes, and Experience of Burnout: What Really Matters?

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BackgroundPediatric nurses care for some of the most vulnerable patients in our healthcare system and are vulnerable to the impact of the stress of their work on their well-being. Burnout is a potential response to chronic interpersonal stressors and a negative work outcome linked to personal and professional consequences. A thorough understanding of the experience and factors associated with burnout in this population is an important part of developing interventions to mitigate or prevent this workplace outcome. Therefore, our study objectives were to: (1) explain and expand our understanding of pediatric critical care nurses experience of burnout in relation to their work environment and work engagement; (2) provide recommendations for nursing administrators to improve nurses’ work environment, work attitudes, and work outcomes.MethodsA convenience sample of pediatric critical care nurses from a large pediatric quaternary care hospital in Ontario, Canada were invited to participate in this second phase of a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, with and main themes and subthemes distilled through the method of interpretive description.ResultsA total of 18 PICU/CCCU/NICU nurses participated. Derived themes included the experience and identification of burnout, including its prevalence and elusiveness. Their experiences of quality of work-life included themes such as compensation, emotional support at work, respect, their professional identity, and spill over into home life. They discussed components of work engagement, including the work itself, investment into their growth and development, and the meaning of their work. The self-care subthemes included the importance of preparation and recovery, and the use of physical and mental separation as a preservation strategy. The participants’ recommendations for strategies to mitigate burnout were also summarized.ConclusionBurnout is a complex and regularly occurring experience for pediatric critical care nurses. Although the experience may be difficult to self-identify, the impacts on the individuals are profound. Further research and organizational support are needed to test practical and evidence-based interventions to improve the well-being of this population.

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“…Nurses in particular have been at increased risk for burnout during the pandemic for a variety of reasons, including heighted anxiety about risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 at work, an increase in patient acuity, increasing demands for overtime, reassignment to unfamiliar roles, and sustained exposure to the moral distress associated with caring for patients with COVID-19. 13 Burnout among critical care staff was already high at the beginning of the pandemic. In July 2020, CCSO conducted a survey to determine the prevalence of burnout symptoms among the Ontario critical care workforce.…”

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Critical Care Capacity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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About Us: The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, to inform Ontario's response. Our mandate is to provide weekly summaries of relevant scientific evidence for the COVID-19 Health Coordination Table of the Province of Ontario, integrating information from existing scientific tables, Ontario's universities and agencies, and the best global evidence. The Science Table summarizes its findings for the Health Coordination Table and the public in Science Briefs.

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Burnout in Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers during COVID-19

Cited by 46 publications

References 129 publications

Communication in interprofessional health care teams from the perspective of patients and staff

Communication in interprofessional health care teams from the perspective of patients and staff

Exploring Pediatric Nurses’ Perspectives on Their Work Environment, Work Attitudes, and Experience of Burnout: What Really Matters?

Critical Care Capacity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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