STAT September 27, 2021
During the marathon of Covid-19, nurses and other health care workers have faced unprecedented levels of work stress as the world approaches two years of this global pandemic — and that stress isn’t easing anytime soon. Health care systems today face a potentially disastrous retention crisis among nurses that will hit hard in the next five years. This crisis isn’t exclusive to nurses — similar ones are on the horizon across all sectors of the health care workforce if health care organizations fail to respond to the stunning levels of burnout their employees are reporting.
One measure of burnout, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, identifies several components that influence burnout, including emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment. In a review of...
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