Impact of nurse burnout on organizational and position turnover.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Academies of Medicine describes clinician burnout as a serious threat to organizational health, including employee turnover.

Purpose

To determine the relationship between resilience, burnout, and organizational and position turnover.

Methods

We surveyed direct care nurses in three hospitals 1 year apart between 2018 and 2019; 1,688 nurses completed 3,135 surveys included in analysis.

Findings

Fifty-four percent of nurses in our sample suffer from moderate burnout, with emotional exhaustion scores increasing by 10% and cynicism scores increasing 19% after 1 year. The impact of burnout on organizational turnover was significant, with a 12% increase in a nurse leaving for each unit increase on the emotional exhaustion scale, though it was n

SUBMITTER: Kelly LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7532952 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature