"I feel broken": Chronicling burnout, mental health, and the limits of individual resilience in nursing.
COVID-19
burnout
health systems
mental health
nursing
qualitative research
Journal
Nursing inquiry
ISSN: 1440-1800
Titre abrégé: Nurs Inq
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9505881
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 Nov 2023
05 Nov 2023
Historique:
revised:
27
09
2023
received:
14
02
2023
accepted:
02
10
2023
medline:
6
11
2023
pubmed:
6
11
2023
entrez:
6
11
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Healthcare systems and health professionals are facing a litany of stressors that have been compounded by the pandemic, and consequently, this has further perpetuated suboptimal mental health and burnout in nursing. The purpose of this paper is to report select findings from a larger, national study exploring gendered experiences of mental health, leave of absence (LOA), and return to work from the perspectives of nurses and key stakeholders. Given the breadth of the data, this paper will focus exclusively on the qualitative results from 53 frontline Canadian nurses who were purposively recruited for their workplace insight. This paper focuses on the substantive theme of "Breaking Point," in which nurses articulated a multiplicity of stress points at the individual, organizational, and societal levels that amplified burnout and accelerated mental health LOA from the workplace. These findings exemplify the complexities that underlie nurses' mental health and burnout and highlight the urgent need for multipronged individual, organizational, and structural interventions. Robust and timely interventions are needed to restore the health of the nursing profession and sustain its future.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e12609Subventions
Organisme : CIHR
Pays : Canada
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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