Nursing Burnout in Acute Care: Impact on Patient Safety and Leadership

This presentation addresses the critical issue of nursing burnout and its impact on patient safety within acute care settings. It examines the causes of burnout, including heavy workloads and psychological stress, and explores how these factors lead to behavioral problems, personality issues like depersonalization, and reduced self-esteem. The presentation emphasizes the correlation between nursing burnout and patient safety, highlighting the increased risks associated with stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. It advocates for the use of effective psychosocial interventions and transformational leadership to mitigate burnout, improve patient care, and adhere to ethical guidelines. The presentation also provides evidence-based practices, scholarly research, and diagrams to communicate key ideas about burnout in the nursing profession, and its implications for nursing practice and leadership.

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Criterion one - ‘Nursing staff burn out due to work load and affecting the safety of staff as
well as patients’.
Criterion two-
The study focuses on nursing burnout that generally occurs in highly acute clinical
situations where the work pressure is too high. As the work pressure piled up and the
psychological tension is not released. Gradually, the behavioral problems takes over the daily
routine followed in a nursing profession and these behavioral problems (Khan, Griffin &
Fitzpatrick 2018) leads to personality issues like depersonalization (Pérez-Fuentes et al.
2019) and related low self-esteem can lead to low accomplishment as well. Hence, self-
management is the first leadership skill that is required to combat the situation.
Criterion three-
In the background and discussion of the study, the correlation between nursing
burnout and patient safety has been presented. While the burnout leads to incidences of stress,
anxiety, insomnia and emotional exhaustion in the nursing professionals- the study focuses
just not on the events of burnout but how the burnout in the nursing professions leads to risk
and safety issues with the patient care and patient dissatisfaction (Hunsaker et al. 2015).
While it is very important to take leadership to monitor one’s action so as to adhere to clinical
guidelines to ensure patient safety – the presentation uses pictures, diagrams and researches
to transfer the best practice guidelines that is to be followed and adhered to, on a priority
basis and hence study implies the use of effective psychosocial interventions to cut out the
danger of burn out. Being a registered nurse, it is important for me and my peers to follow the
best practice criteria on a regular basis to take leadership and ownership in our own
professional actions while increasing the level of code of conduct without crossing the ethical
barriers.

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Criterion four – in the presentation, I did my best to present the critical information about
the burn out processes, its causes and consequences so as to ensure that the knowledge gets
transferred to my fellow colleagues or nursing peers. Through the use of evidence based
practice and scholarly nursing researches content supported by diagrams and pictures, I have
tried to communicate the major ideas related to burn out in nursing profession and its serious
consequences. The presentation does communicate various implications regarding the nursing
practice and how leadership is to be taken. A transformational leadership (Lin et al. 2015) is
often applicable to this scenario where a senior nurse must at first go through self-realization
and then use the self-management tool to foster a positive personal behavior. This can then be
taught to the new nurses in order to develop a positive workplace behavior.
Criterion Five
Structure and written expression
Criterion Six
Academic Integrity

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Khan, B. P., Griffin, M. T. Q., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. 2018. Staff Nurses’ Perceptions of Their
Nurse Managers’ Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Their Own Structural
Empowerment. Journal of Nursing Administration, 48(12), 609-614.
Lin, P. Y., MacLennan, S., Hunt, N., & Cox, T. 2015. The influences of nursing
transformational leadership style on the quality of nurses’ working lives in Taiwan: a cross-
sectional quantitative study. BMC nursing, 14(1), 33.
Pérez-Fuentes, M. D. C., Molero Jurado, M. D. M., Martos Martínez, Á., & Gázquez Linares,
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