1/ Welcome to another edition of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! As a reminder, I’ll briefly highlight papers, topics, questions, etc. related to healthcare professional #wellbeing, with a new entry each week. #wellbeingwednesday #burnout #medtwitter

2/ This week we’ll look at #burnout beyond physicians, considering national data on nurses #NurseTwitter. From colleagues @dyrbye @ANANursingWorld and others, published in @JrnlEnvirOccMed https://journals.lww.com/joem/Abstract/2019/08000/Burnout_and_Satisfaction_With_Work_Life.10.aspx

3/ Prior work in nurse #burnout has been championed by @LindaAiken_Penn in particular. As for physicians, nurse burnout has been linked with important personal and professional consequences: patient care issues, job turnover, personal distress, and more.

4/ In our study, we surveyed members of @ANANursingWorld in November 2017. We also developed a comparison sample from among other American workers. Burnout was measured using the MBI. This yielded 7077 nurse participants and 5198 other workers.

5/ Limitations up front: RR was low, about 10%. Participants were similar to US nurses in total on sex, age, work hours, etc., which supports representativeness. However, a followup paper survey to nonresponders differed a bit. The main results may overestimate #burnout slightly.

6/ The #burnout results (symptoms at least weekly):
High emotional exhaustion: 34.6%
High depersonalization: 20.5%
Overall burnout: 38.4%

7/ Higher risk with:
Emergency Department work setting
increased work hours
less advanced nursing degrees