Study: correlation between nurse burnout and patients needing emergency care
Date postedJanuary 18, 2024
A new study from the Columbia School of Nursing reveals that "primary care practices with higher rates of nurse practitioner burnout are seeing higher rates of older patients with chronic conditions receiving acute care." Twenty-six percent of nurse practitioners in the study reported burnout. The report recommends improvements to working environments for NPs by "implementing wellbeing check-ins and debriefings after serious incidents, and potentially offering support programs for new mothers or those caring for aging parents, . . . celebrating wins as they come, and using patient feedback as a method of uplifting nurses’ spirits."