A Literature Review: Factors Related to Burnout Syndrome in Hospital Nurses

Burnout Syndrom Nurse Burnout Factor Health worker

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30 June 2024
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Background: Excellent service by hospitals is not far from the role of their workers, such as doctors, nurses, and other health workers and staff. Behind the hard work of health workers in providing services, they have a high risk of experiencing burnout syndrome. Research on burnout shows that the health profession ranks first with the most burnout, which is around 43%. Especially nurses who have an important role in patient recovery and safety. Not a few nurses experience fatigue due to their very heavy responsibilities. Therefore nurses have a great risk of suffering from burnout syndrome. Purpose: To examine more deeply the factors associated with the incidence of burnout syndrome in hospital nurses. Methods: This study is a systematic review with article searches using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Article search using google scholar database. The inclusion criteria are articles published in national level journals, the year of publication of articles published in the last 5 years (2018-2023), research articles can be accessed in full (full text), and articles in Indonesian. Exclusion criteria in this study include not in accordance with the PECOS of previous published journals that exceed the last 5 years, research outside the hospital, and full articles that cannot be accessed. Conclusion: The majority states that workload is the dominant factor triggering burnout in hospital nurses. There are also other factors such as length of service, gender, age, and marital status.

Keyword: Burnout Syndrom, Factor Burnout, Nurse

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