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To fight attrition, hospitals fight nursing stress
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Stress and burnout are not the same. Burnout is a kind of job depression and is caused by feeling of powerlessness; it is not caused by stress - tho it is stressful. Stress is a taxing of the body.
Burnout is a motivational problem. A person struggling with burnout is demotivated, dispirited, depressed - down. Whereas a highly stressed person may be highly enthusiastic - tho driving their body.
Stress is the "fever" of burnout. As with pneumonia. A high fever must be reduced or there is a risk of brain damage - BUT once reduced the pneumonia is still there. Similarly with burnout - the stress must be reduced but reducing stress does not deal with the job situations rendering the person helpless. The person must develop a feeling of controllability.
Burnout is caused by feelings of uncontrollability. Powerlessness, damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't situations. It is prevented by developing feelings of control over the job - which is an on-going process.
For considerable information on job burnout, the symptoms, burnout quizzes, and what to do to prevent it or turn it around - go to my site at docpotter.com





