Emory Authors: Reliability and Validity of Measures Commonly Utilized to Assess Nurse Well-Being

“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.”

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Interventions to reduce alarm fatigue and nuisance alarms on cardiac units.

“Health care workers are exposed to an excessive number of alarms that overload their senses, which leads to alarm desensitization. It is estimated that between 80% and 99% of alarms in the clinical areas are false As health care workers become increasingly desensitized to alarms, alarm response rates decrease or diminish all together. Poor alarm response rates result in important alarms being overlooked or ignored because the important alarms are
drowned out by superfluous alarms.” (Srinivasa)

(Srinivasa)
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