“A healthy, competent nursing workforce is a vital component to ensuring patients receive high-quality, evidence-based care. However, unsafe work environments, patients’ ever-increasing complex care needs, and public health emergencies threaten the well-being of nurses and increase the risk of nurse burnout. Burnout is a psychological syndrome
resulting from chronic job-related interpersonal stressors; it manifests as overwhelming exhaustion, cynicism towards or detachment from the job, and feeling a sense of lacking professional achievement.”

“In conclusion, we found that when compared to longer measures, brief measures of nurse well-being have acceptable reliability and validity. Convergent validity was seen across these measures when administered to a diverse sample of nurses working across acute care settings in a large academic health system. Collectively, findings from this study support the continued and expanded use of these psychometrically sound instruments, particularly brief low-burden ones, in routine assessments of nurses’ well-being and when evaluating interventions aimed at optimizing workplace well-being.”

Giordano, N. A., Razmpour, O., Mascaro, J. S., Kaplan, D. M., Lewis, A. S., Baird, M., Willis, P. H., Reif, L., Bommakanti, R., Lisenby, A., Cunningham, T., & Cimiotti, J. P. (2024). Reliability and Validity of Measures Commonly Utilized to Assess Nurse Well-Being. Nursing research, 73(5), 399–405.