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Strategies for Prevention: Mental Health Nurse Burnout and Stress

European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies

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Title Strategies for Prevention: Mental Health Nurse Burnout and Stress
 
Creator Sadiku(Alterziu), Violeta
 
Description The aim of this critical review was to identify prevention strategies that may be effective in the reduction of stress and burnout among mental health nurses. Diminished staff wellbeing, due to high levels of stress and burnout, has significant consequences at both the individual and the service level. Therefore, identifying effective prevention strategies may be beneficial in raising recruitment of mental health nurses, in prolonging retention, and may also have a positive impact on patient care. A search of the literature was undertaken utilising selected systematic review techniques, which identified seven articles as suitable for review. The results of the review found that three main prevention strategies were being utilised: clinical supervision, psychosocial intervention and social support. While all these strategies had the aim of minimising or preventing stress and/or burnout, they were all somewhat different in their focus and in their outcome measures. This factor, coupled with the paucity of high quality randomised intervention studies, makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions concerning which intervention is most effective. The best currently available evidence suggests that prolonged clinical supervision is probably the best of the three options for the reduction of stress and burnout among mental health nurses, given the lack of high quality evidence and the magnitude and potential impact of this problem
 
Publisher EUSER
 
Date 2016-04-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Identifier http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejms/article/view/1251
10.26417/ejms.v1i1.p361-365
 
Source European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies; Vol 1 No 1 (2016): January-April 2016; 361-365
2414-8385
2414-8377
10.26417/ejms.v1i1
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejms/article/view/1251/1240