Research progress on job burnout intervention of nursing staff abroad / 环境与职业医学

ABSTRACT

The severe shortage of nursing staff, coupled with the heavy workload, trivial work, high occupational risk, and low sense of public recognition of the nursing work, makes nursing staff experience different levels of job burnout. Job burnout of nursing staff would not only have an impact on their physical and mental health, resulting in fatigue, anxiety, sleep disorders, and other health problems, but also lead to decline of nursing quality, increase of medical errors, decline of patient satisfaction, and increase of turnover rate. Therefore, it is crucial to intervene in nursing staff's occupational burnout appropriately. This study systematically reviewed the intervention methods targeting job burnout of nursing staff abroad, where relevant research was conducted earlier than domestic research and has been well developed, and found that the current relevant intervention methods can be summarized into three types individual, organizational or comprehensive intervention. Despite their own characteristics and effects, there are still some shortcomings of the three types of intervention methods, such as nonpersistent effect, conflict between time windows of intervention and of nursing tasks, difficulty of implementation, and failure to focus on a specific dimension. Future intervention methods can comprehensively consider both individual and external factors, appropriately shorten the intervention cycle to improve compliance of nursing staff, and raise managers' attention to job burnout.