Dr. Carolyn Porta, Director of the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing  (OEHN) program, is co-lead author on a study recently published in the Journal of Nursing Management entitled Work Aspects Related to and Protective of Nurse Burnout During the Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. The aim of the study was to determine work conditions and reactions related to nurse burnout while exploring characteristics of favorable work environments among nurses without burnout.

There is an urgency to address nurse burnout. Workplace factors matter, such as workload and feeling valued. Systems that value worker health and employ trauma-intelligent solutions will likely see benefits such as retention and longevity in the workforce. The benefits of addressing anxiety and depression and the effects of vicarious trauma in nursing may be considerable. Addressing stressors among leaders could benefit both leaders and nurses. The timely work of implementing workplace corrections to reduce nursing burnout and testing their impact is long overdue. Almost half of nurse burnout may be addressed by a brief list of remediable variables.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/jonm/1851095