Nursing Leadership Assignment 2022

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
NURSING LEADERSHIP
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

NURSING LEADERSHIP1
Slide1:
My name is (put your note) and I’m the subject coordinator for Nursing Leadership.
My topic is nursing burnout.
Slide 2:
Background:
In the background: we are going to discuss the background of the nursing burnout. It was
observed that it is experienced by nurses while they are subjected to the high level of
stressors such as overtime, excessive workload and handling critical patients. Consequently,
it affects patient safety as well as the environment of the workplace (Fong 2016). It is
required to address with the help of leadership skills.
Objective:
In this part we are going to discuss the object. The object of the study is to develop
leadership skills for addressing the issues. In this case, responsibility of nurses is to involve
themselves in the training to gather the skills (Johnson et al. 2016).
Outline:
In the outline, a professional development session is required to implement which will be
elaborated in next slides.
Conclusion:
In a concluding it can be said that only nursing leadership can address the issues of nursing
burnout and improve safety of patients.

NURSING LEADERSHIP2
Slide 3:
Background:
Nurse burnout is an extensive event defined by a decrease in nurses’ energy that
reveals in emotional exhaustion, demotivation, and feelings of frustration and may lead to
reductions in work efficacy (Fong 2016). Woodhead, Northrop and Edelstein (2016)
highlighted that burnout in the clinical practice is considered as physical and emotional
exhaustion which is experienced by nurses while they are subjected to the high level of
stressors such as overtime, excessive workload and handling critical patients. Consequently,
it affects patient safety as well as the environment of the workplace. Hence, the purpose of
the assignment is to explore how nursing burnout impact patient safety and healthy
workplace and leadership skills required for resolving the issue. Liu et al. (2018),
highlighted that high burnout rates of nurses in hospital tend to have lower patient satisfaction
as nurses are the frontline health care professionals that support the wellbeing of the
patients. They are the leaders of the health care that improve the quality of care and assists in
achieving high patient satisfaction (Johnson et al. 2016). Several factors contributed to the
nursing burnout which includes long shifts, putting others first, high-stress environments,
coping with sickness and death (Aiken et al. 2018). It is observed that in the majority of the
cases due to a shortage of staffs, nurses tend to long shift hours more than 12 hours which
further leads to burnout. On the other hand, we as a nurse when caring for patients, raising a
family and working long, hectic hours, tend to neglect the personal needs (Rees et al. 2019).