Highlights
- •The study shows that 25.3% of primary care NPs are burnt-out.
- •Favorable environments are associated with 51% to 58% lower risk of NP burnout.
- •Organizational changes to the practice environment may reduce NP burnout.
Abstract
Poor practice environments contribute to burnout, but favorable environments containing
support, resources, autonomy, and optimal relations with colleagues may prevent burnout.
Compared with all nurse practitioners (NPs), 69% of these NPs provide primary care
to patients, yet whether the practice environment is associated with NP burnout is
unknown. A study to examine environmental factors related to NP burnout was conducted.
Overall, 396 NPs completed the survey, and 25.3% were burnt-out. Higher scores on
the professional visibility, NP-physician relations, NP-administration relations,
independent practice, and support subscales were associated with 51%, 51%, 58%, and
56% lower risk of NP burnout, respectively.
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Biography
Cilgy M. Abraham, BS, RN, is a PhD student at Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York. She can be reached at: [email protected]
Biography
Katherine Zheng, BSN, RN, PhD, Allison A. Norful, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, Affan Ghaffari, PhD, MPH, Jianfang Liu, PhD, and Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, MPH, RN, are at Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York.
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Published online: January 11, 2021
Footnotes
This study was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R36HS027290), by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, and the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD011514).
In compliance with national ethical standards the authors report no relationships with business or industry that would pose a conflict of interest.
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