Staffing, Safety Concerns Tied to Burnout in Hospital Clinicians
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By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, July 11, 2023 -- Nearly one-third of hospital-based physicians and half of hospital-based nurses report burnout, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Health Forum.
Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., R.N., from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues assessed well-being and turnover rates of physicians and nurses in hospital practice. A survey of 21,050 physicians and nurses at 60 nationally distributed U.S. Magnet hospitals sought to identify actionable factors associated with adverse clinician outcomes, patient safety, and clinicians' preferences for interventions.
The researchers found that high burnout was common among hospital physicians (32 percent) and nurses (47 percent), with nurse burnout associated with higher turnover of both nurses and physicians. Physicians (12 percent) and nurses (26 percent) rated their hospitals unfavorably on patient safety; they reported having too few nurses (28 and 54 percent, respectively), having a poor work environment (20 and 34 percent, respectively), and lacking confidence in management (42 and 46 percent, respectively). Fewer than one in 10 clinicians described their workplace as joyful. Both physicians and nurses reported that management interventions to improve care delivery were more important to their mental health and well-being than interventions specifically directed at improving clinicians' mental health. The highest-ranking intervention was improving nurse staffing (87 percent of nurses and 45 percent of physicians).
"Enhancing clinician well-being and retention requires deliberate actions by management to improve nurse staffing, work environments, and patient safety culture," the authors write.
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Posted July 2023
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