Grit & burnout in registered nurses within hospital settings

ABSTRACT

Understaffing not only limits delivery of adequate patient care, but it also may create human error that endangers the patient (Beckmann et al., 1998). Nurse staffing levels continue to impact duties and responsibilities that lead to adverse patient outcomes and job-related burnout (Aiken et al., 2002). The purpose of this study was to determine whether a correlation exists between grit and burnout in registered nurses who work a minimum of 36-hours per week within hospital settings in the United States. A total sample size of 387 registered nurses were used in the study.This study provides evidence that indicates a statistically significant correlation between grit and burnout in registered nurses within hospital settings. The results of this study indicate that the variance in grit correlates to that of the perceived job-related burnout in registered nurses within hospital settings in the United States. These research study findings are consistent with grit and burnout studies that suggest a positive relationship between grit and burnout (Halliday et al., 2017) of other healthcare professionals or medical doctors.The impact of this study is directly related to grit within an understaffed healthcare environment. Grit is considered to have various positive work-related outcomes (Ion et al., 2017;Silvia et al., 2013) adding to the growing discussion of grit in relation to healthcare literature (McCabe, 2016;Stoffel & Cain, 2018). The literature related to nursing, burnout, and grit is limited. The results of the study indicate that the variance in registered nurses perceived job-related burnout (DV) can be explained by the perceived grit (IV).Keywords registered nurses, burnout, grit, healthcare professionals, Corona Virus(COVID-19). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)