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No matter how it is viewed, nursing is a personally taxing profession. It carries with it a broad range of duties and responsibilities, and a complex and demanding set of both personal and professional expectations, often in the absence of anything close to adequate support and backup. Nurses are expected to be technically competent and personally caring. In addition, they are required to be dominant in some circumstances and subservient in others. They are also expected to be respectful of the organizational hierarchy within which they work even though that hierarchy may sometimes lack logic. Above all, nurses are expected to be present and available at all times to attend to the many and often conflicting needs of their patients and their superiors. Not surprisingly, burnout is a relatively common experience within the nursing profession.
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Byrne, A., Byrne, D. (1992). Burnout and its Management in Nursing. In: Psychology for Nurses. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13113-6_9
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