Burnout in the intensive care unit: it’s a team problem

Understanding burnout and moral distress to build resilience: a qualitative study of an interprofessional intensive care unit team

“…Similar experiences are described in the literature as contributing to burnout in the healthcare team, while attending to these deficiencies helps alleviate stress and build resilience. 16,24 This study affirmed previous data that burnout and moral distress are significant issues within this ICU team, 18 and taught us about the root causes through exploring everyday work. Strengthening our thematic analysis, the research group consisted of a multidisciplinary team, reducing bias in the interpretation of results.…”

“…Nevertheless, based on our previous ICU study that had a high percentage participation, we do not think that this is a relevant problem. 18 Another potential weakness is that participants may not represent the opinion of the majority of the ICU team as the focus group enrollment was self-selected. Since many of the themes were similar across different professional groups, we do not feel this to be the case.…”

“…[15][16][17] Previous research quantified high rates of burnout and moral distress in the same ICU team. 18 High and moderate levels of emotional exhaustion were 27.3% and 39.4%, respectively. Depersonalization was high in 13.9% and moderate in 33.3%.…”

Stress and burnout in a group of intensive care unit medical personnel – a preliminary study

“…Doctors and nurses are of interest to researchers studying stress and burnout [1]. Researchers have shown that doctors and nurses alike are tired and overburdened with work challenges, such as high patient load and ethical, medical, and legal responsibilities [2,3]. Reported burnout levels have been reported to be often higher than 50% [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

When duty to care causes collective sorrow and shame: assessing and addressing moral distress in intensive care unit clinicians

“…Unsurprisingly, many studies have reported that moral distress experienced by ICU clinicians is ubiquitous. 6 , 7 Previous studies have described the contextual factors that lead to moral distress among ICU clinicians. 8 But few studies have evaluated specific interventions to reduce the burden of moral distress experienced by ICU clinicians.…”