Self- care & Burnout Amongst Emergency Room Nurses

This project will examine Self-care and Burnout amongst Emergency Room (ER) Nurses. This Quality Improvement (QI) project will be conducted at a 26-bed emergency room in a Southeast Florida hospital over 4 weeks. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) by Mind Garden will be administered to nurses pre and post intervention. The intervention will consist of a self-care health promotion presentation that provides information regarding the importance of self-care, self-care tips and examples of implementing these activities in their daily practice. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was developed as a research instrument to assess burnout using three dimensions: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment. Each participant will be given a link to sign on and complete the Maslach Burnout Inventory by Mind Garden prior to the health promotion presentation and 3 weeks after pre-and post-assessment MBI HSS results. Data was collected from 9 participants. Data was collected in Excel and the data analysis was conducted using Intellectus Statistics (2023). Upper-tailed paired samples t-tests were conducted to examine whether emergency room nurses reported decreases in Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization from pretest to posttest. Likewise, a lower-tailed paired sample t-test was used to examine the increase in personal achievements from pretest to posttest. There were decreases in feelings of depersonalization and increases in personal accomplishments were noted after the self-promotion presentation. Self-care may be a simple, cost-effective tool to reduce nurse burnout and promote retention.