Summary: Nurse Burnout

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Stress can lead many workers to think of moving out of their job and move to a better one. Nurses are having more work burnout imposed and are dissatisfied with their work because of the occurring nursing shortage. Aiken et al agrees with the nursing shortage is inputting more stress into the nurses who are still holding their job: “The shortage of hospital nurses may be linked to unrealistic nurse workload. Forty percent of hospital nurses have burnout levels that exceed the norms for health care workers” (1). Having an excessive amount of stress or workload can lead to bad health or intention in leaving the job. About half of hospital nurses are experiencing large amounts of stress and are helping the nursing shortage to continue. The stress

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