{"title":"Investigating factors that reduce burnout among newly licensed registered nurses","authors":"Tera Johnson, S. Shamroukh, M. Newman","doi":"10.3233/hsm-220027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND: Burnout among newly licensed registered nurses is a prevalent healthcare issue. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors that reduce nurse burnout: workload, job interference with home life, having friendly co-workers, and inspirational motivation. METHODS: Secondary data from Kovner et al.’s 2006–2015 longitudinal survey was used to conduct a factor analysis. Kovner et al. surveyed 1,706 newly licensed nurses who received their nursing licenses in 2002 in the United States. The factor analysis identified the relationships between several questions about burnout symptoms and organizational factors. RESULTS: Supervisors inspiring the best in their employees, job satisfaction, and nurses’ job expectations matching their actual job duties were found to be related. Heavy workloads, nervousness, mood swings, irritability, and feeling on edge were also related. Additionally, job’s interference with home life and friendly co-workers were unrelated. CONCLUSIONS: Burnout can be mitigated by lessening workloads, supporting nurses, and ensuring nurses’ job expectations are met. Further research is needed to explain why some factors, such as having friendly co-workers, did not appear to influence burnout symptoms.","PeriodicalId":13113,"journal":{"name":"Human systems management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Human systems management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3233/hsm-220027","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Burnout among newly licensed registered nurses is a prevalent healthcare issue. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors that reduce nurse burnout: workload, job interference with home life, having friendly co-workers, and inspirational motivation. METHODS: Secondary data from Kovner et al.’s 2006–2015 longitudinal survey was used to conduct a factor analysis. Kovner et al. surveyed 1,706 newly licensed nurses who received their nursing licenses in 2002 in the United States. The factor analysis identified the relationships between several questions about burnout symptoms and organizational factors. RESULTS: Supervisors inspiring the best in their employees, job satisfaction, and nurses’ job expectations matching their actual job duties were found to be related. Heavy workloads, nervousness, mood swings, irritability, and feeling on edge were also related. Additionally, job’s interference with home life and friendly co-workers were unrelated. CONCLUSIONS: Burnout can be mitigated by lessening workloads, supporting nurses, and ensuring nurses’ job expectations are met. Further research is needed to explain why some factors, such as having friendly co-workers, did not appear to influence burnout symptoms.
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Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.