“The Impact of Nurse Burnout, Fatigue, and Bullying on Patient Safety and Quality of Care: A Discussion on Organizational Strategies to Address These Issues”

Reading materials:
The following
article discusses the effect of nurse burnout on patient safety, quality of
care and other organizational outcomes. It’s a long article, focus your reading
on the discussion section.
Jun et al.
(2021)
This article looks at studies that have done
examining how nursing fatigue affects patient safety. Focus on the results and
discussion sections. Think about how your practice differs when you are
well-rested and when you are tired.
Cho &
Steege (2021)
The next article examines how workplace
bullying affects patient safety and offers suggestions on how individuals,
managers and leaders can address this issue.  
Wallace &
Gipson (2017)Links: https://patientsafety.pa.gov/ADVISORIES/Pages/201706_64.aspx
Here are the Questions:
1. What are the
effects of burnout on patient safety and quality of care?
2. What are the
effects of fatigue on patient safety and quality of care?
3. What is one
thing that the readings suggested that nursing leaders or staff nurses can do
to address either burnout or fatigue?
4. Does your
organization do anything to address fatigue or burnout (other than telling you
to take care of yourself, which isn’t really a solution)?
5. In this
module we talked about human factors that affect patient safety and quality of
care. We focused on fatigue, burnout and bullying behaviors. What are actions
that you can take to address one of these issues?