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P K Patrick

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PubMed1984

Self-preservation: treatment intervention for nurse impairment.

The nursing profession has initiated major intervention programs designed to address the issues and problems generated by impaired professional behavior. In Part I of this two-part series, the parameters of this key aspect of self-preservation were outlined. Part II will describe several existing and evolving intervention strategies tailored to the unique needs of the impaired nurse. Legal, social, and professional concerns are discussed as each relates to the challenges posed to peer and/or therapist efforts to treat the impaired nurse. A sampling of intervention programs is presented for both informational purposes as well as to serve as illustrations of methods that can be adapted by clinicians who have or can anticipate treating the impaired nurse.

Burnout, Professional↗
PubMed1984

Self-preservation: confronting the issue of nurse impairment.

Recognition of valuable natural resources suggests a need to accept a degree of responsibility to preserve and nurture the commodity, and to prevent its destruction. Health care professionals generally embrace such an ethic with reference to the environment, the quality of living for clients, and the need to assume professional responsibility to provide effective helping services. Unfortunately, health professionals may not be as willing or seemingly as able to engage in preservation behavior for themselves or for peers. Self-preservation represents survival. Survival creates an opportunity to accomplish professional goals. Without active involvement in self-preservation efforts, and application of these same principles to peers, risk for burnout and impairment escalates dramatically. While all health care professionals are candidates for ongoing self-preservation efforts, this article will focus on the nursing profession's need to develop a variety of methodologies to address the impairment issue.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1984

Organizational burnout programs.

Nurse executives have all felt the negative impact of stress and burnout in their organizations. As data emerge supporting the benefits of burnout and stress intervention programs in the workplace, nurse executives are in a unique position to foster development of organizational approaches to manage or prevent burnout. This article will describe a specific nurse administration generated antiburnout program applicable to health care organizations.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1979

Burnout: job hazard for health workers.

Employees in health care settings face significant risk of burnout, which involves negative emotional, psychological, and physical reactions to continuous work-related stress.

Humans↗