"Pediatric Nurses' Grief Experience, Burnout and Job Satisfaction"- Jehad Z. Adwan
I had to dig deep to find this source. I knew I wanted to talk further about the different types of stress pediatric nurses face. While searching, I continued to find the same type of information. After changing my search terms ten times, I finally found what I was looking for; “pediatric nurses stress on death”. The source was published in 2014 and has 72 citations on Google Scholar. There are hyperlinks included throughout the source, giving it greater credibility through ethos. Another thing is that the author of the source is an RN and has a Ph.D.
The article, “Pediatric Nurses’ Grief Experience, Burnout and Job Satisfaction” by Jehad Z. Adwan, explains the relationship between pediatric nurses’ grief, burnout, and job satisfaction through a study. I focused on the grief and burnout of the study because I have already done research on job satisfaction in relation to stress. The author states, “health professionals may suffer and experience a variety of emotional and physical symptoms including headaches, fatigue, and depression as they watch the suffering of their patients and families” (329). In the study for exploring grief and burnout they used the following; Demographic Information Form (DIF), The Revised Grief Experience Inventory (RGEI) and The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). The results concluded, “that nurses experience grief over the death of their patients in ways similar to the patient’s family members, yet to lesser extents” (334). Statistically from the study, there was a positive correlation between the age of the patient who had passed and the nurses’ burnout level. Another thing that was found in the study was “the average period the nurses knew the patient before they died, and grief’s guilt scores were also significantly correlated” (333). Tying grief and burnout together the study concluded, “higher levels of grief and its components are associated positively and even suggest explanations to some components of burnout, i.e. emotional exhaustion, which in turn is linked to nurses’ intention to leave their unit, hospital, or even nursing as a profession” (334). All in all, this source provides information on the extensive grief pediatric nurses go through after their patients’ death, and the burnout, which in the end can be related to stress.
This source helps answer my question because it is relating the stressor of grief and burnout which are two large components of pediatric nursing stress. Many nurses have the fear that they’re going to lose a patient and it makes it 100 times worse losing a child than an older adult. This article compares to the other articles because it talks about job satisfaction in relation to stress. I did not include that information because it was the same results as the article, “Influence of Stress and Nursing Leadership on Job Satisfaction of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses”. It differs because I have not yet had a source that talks about the grief that pediatric nurses go through and the nurse burnout, so it was good to gain information about it to help answer my question.
The article, “Pediatric Nurses’ Grief Experience, Burnout and Job Satisfaction” by Jehad Z. Adwan, explains the relationship between pediatric nurses’ grief, burnout, and job satisfaction through a study. I focused on the grief and burnout of the study because I have already done research on job satisfaction in relation to stress. The author states, “health professionals may suffer and experience a variety of emotional and physical symptoms including headaches, fatigue, and depression as they watch the suffering of their patients and families” (329). In the study for exploring grief and burnout they used the following; Demographic Information Form (DIF), The Revised Grief Experience Inventory (RGEI) and The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). The results concluded, “that nurses experience grief over the death of their patients in ways similar to the patient’s family members, yet to lesser extents” (334). Statistically from the study, there was a positive correlation between the age of the patient who had passed and the nurses’ burnout level. Another thing that was found in the study was “the average period the nurses knew the patient before they died, and grief’s guilt scores were also significantly correlated” (333). Tying grief and burnout together the study concluded, “higher levels of grief and its components are associated positively and even suggest explanations to some components of burnout, i.e. emotional exhaustion, which in turn is linked to nurses’ intention to leave their unit, hospital, or even nursing as a profession” (334). All in all, this source provides information on the extensive grief pediatric nurses go through after their patients’ death, and the burnout, which in the end can be related to stress.
This source helps answer my question because it is relating the stressor of grief and burnout which are two large components of pediatric nursing stress. Many nurses have the fear that they’re going to lose a patient and it makes it 100 times worse losing a child than an older adult. This article compares to the other articles because it talks about job satisfaction in relation to stress. I did not include that information because it was the same results as the article, “Influence of Stress and Nursing Leadership on Job Satisfaction of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses”. It differs because I have not yet had a source that talks about the grief that pediatric nurses go through and the nurse burnout, so it was good to gain information about it to help answer my question.
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