1. Positive Emotion Skills Intervention to Address Burnout in Critical Care Nurses
- Author
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Judith T. Moskowitz, Alison Hernandez, Emma Herold, and Elaine O. Cheung
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,education ,Emotions ,Health Promotion ,Burnout ,Nursing Staff, Hospital ,Critical Care Nursing ,Occupational safety and health ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,law ,Behavior Therapy ,Critical care nursing ,Intervention (counseling) ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Burnout, Professional ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Intensive care unit ,United States ,Compassion fatigue ,Positive emotion ,Emergency Medicine ,Anxiety ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,business ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
Critical care nurses experience high levels of workplace stress, which can lead to burnout. Many medical centers have begun offering wellness programs to address burnout in their nursing staff; however, most of these programs focus on reducing negative states such as stress, depression, and anxiety. A growing body of evidence highlights the unique, independent role of positive emotion in promoting adaptive coping in the face of stress. This article describes a novel approach for preventing burnout in critical care nurses: an intervention that explicitly aims to increase positive emotion by teaching individuals empirically supported skills. This positive emotion skills intervention has been used successfully in other populations and can be tailored for critical care nurses. Also discussed are recommendations for addressing burnout in intensive care unit nurses at both the individual and organizational levels.
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- 2020