Various aspects of burnout among medical personnel, with particular emphasis on the professional group of nurses of social welfare homes

Abstract

Abstracts. Nursing homes are institutions for people who require round-the-clock care due to disability, illness or age. Workers of social welfare homes are burdened with a large amount of work. Emotional involvement in the affairs of residents with a simultaneous lack of distance from the problems of other people carries a risk of mental burden, which may result in the appearance of the burnout syndrome.
Aim. The aim of the study was to show various aspects of professional burnout of medical personnel in nursing homes, with particular emphasis on the professional group of nurses.
Material and methods. The research used the method of diagnostic survey and the method of estimation; research techniques: surveying and the estimation scale technique and the PSS-10 and DS-14 questionnaires. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz (No. KB 434 / 2017).
Results. The research showed a statistically significant relationship between the intensity of stress and the groups of the profession performed in social welfare homes. The highest intensity of stress was recorded in the professional group of medical carers, nurses and rehabilitators.
Conclusions. Nurses and medical carers are the occupational groups most exposed to the occurrence of the occupational burnout syndrome in comparison with other employees of social care homes. It is important to be aware of the threat and to take a firm stance to counteract the phenomenon of emotional exhaustion.