Digital Download - PowerPoint Synchronized with Live Audio

Addressing burnout and its prevention in healthcare professionals is crucial to the health of our nation.  Nurses often change jobs or leave the profession because of un-humanistic and chaotic work environments and professional and personal burnout.  Loss of experienced RNs constitutes a loss of skill and expertise and represents significant costs in both financial and human resources for healthcare organizations.

Reduction of perceived stress is strongly related to increased job satisfaction.  Nurses can become empowered to cope with stress through greater self-awareness and personal insight by focusing upon, recognizing, and understanding their emotional and behavioral responses to work-related stress.

The proposed panel presentation will identify the impact of stress and burnout on the nursing profession; discuss models and activities of self-care within the human/energetic, environment/culture, and research dimensions; and offer self-care strategies for creating balance, managing stress, and preventing burnout.