Burnout, Professional
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Child welfare worker caseload: what's just right?

29 Sep 2009 This study was designed to establish a caseload standard for child welfare workers. Understanding reasonable workload expectations for child welfare workers is a cornerstone of quality service provision and the recruitment and retention of qualified ... Read more...

Quality of life during orthopaedic training and academic practice. Part 1: orthopaedic surgery residents and faculty.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: A pilot study of two academic training programs revealed concerning levels of resident burnout and psychological dysfunction. The purpose of the present study was to determine the quality of life of orthopaedic residents and faculty on a ... Read more...

Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors.

21 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Fatigue and distress have been separately shown to be associated with medical errors. The contribution of each factor when assessed simultaneously is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of fatigue and distress with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Burnout, Professional'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Night shift. 30 Oct 2009
• The suffering of physicians. 22 Oct 2009
• Child welfare worker caseload: what's just right? 29 Sep 2009
• Quality of life during orthopaedic training and academic practice. Part 1: orthopaedic surgery residents and faculty. 29 Sep 2009
• Enhancing meaning in work: a prescription for preventing physician burnout and promoting patient-centered care. 21 Sep 2009
• Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors. 21 Sep 2009
• Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians. 21 Sep 2009
• Nursing faculty shortage in 2009. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational views of hardiness in critical care nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• The burnout and exhaustion levels of nurses working in haemodialysis units. 30 Aug 2009
• A survey of stress, job satisfaction and burnout among haemodialysis staff. 30 Aug 2009
• Registered nurses' perceptions of moral distress and ethical climate. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical supervision and the well-being of the psychiatric nurse. 30 Aug 2009
• Addressing compassion fatigue. The problem is not new, but it requires more urgent attention. 30 Aug 2009
• Burnout and career satisfaction among American surgeons. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of Qigong in patients with burnout: a randomized controlled trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Health-care worker burnout and the mental health imperative. 20 Aug 2009
• [The requirements and difficulties of patient movement during medical nursing] 14 Aug 2009
• Burnout in hospital-based medical consultants in the New Zealand public health system. 5 Aug 2009
• Career longevity in clinical pediatric emergency medicine. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Burnout, Professional'

Definition: An excessive stress reaction to one's occupational or professional environment. It is manifested by feelings of emotional and physical exhaustion coupled with a sense of frustration and failure.

Descriptor UI: D002055

Alternative terms: Burnout, Professional; Professional Burnout;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F02.830.900.110;

History Note: 90(83); was see under STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL 1983-89

Technical Notes: use Cat F3 qualif & even those with discretion