Role Strain and Burnout in Nursing

Table of Contents

1. Summary
2. Effects of Role Stress in Nursing
3. Managing and Reducing Role Stress and Role Strain
4. Personal Experience
5. References

Summary

Nurses are an essential part of the healthcare setting because they provide patients with critical care. Majorly, the role of a nurse is to provide care to patients and the physically disabled in hospitals and other community settings. Nurses respond to the cases that occur naturally and whose treatment is possible. Otherwise, they issue referral letters to patients whose conditions are beyond their capacity. Nurses work with other health professionals to implement their roles. Despite their commitment, they undergo role strain when they cannot meet the requirements of their social roles. Role strain happens when professionals like nurses have many overlapping roles. That makes one role disrupt their performance in the other position. Furthermore, burnout is mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion due to work-related stress such as long hours and caring for patients who develop poor outcomes. Burnout makes nurses detached, and it can lead to hopelessness and depression.