Abstract
Nurse burnout has emerged as a critical threat to the sustainability of healthcare systems, particularly in high-stress environments such as emergency departments, intensive care units, and pandemic-response settings. Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, leads to adverse outcomes including mental health deterioration, decreased quality of care, high staff turnover, and organizational instability. This introduces a resilience-building model designed to address nurse burnout through a comprehensive, multi-tiered intervention framework targeting individual, team, and organizational levels. At the individual level, the model emphasizes mental health interventions such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), cognitive-behavioral techniques, and facilitated access to counseling services. These strategies aim to enhance emotional regulation, stress management, and self-care practices among nurses. The peer and team-based tier focuses on structured peer support systems, including mentoring programs, buddy systems, group debriefings, and team-based resilience workshops. These initiatives foster mutual support, improve team cohesion, and create safe spaces for emotional expression. The organizational-level tier targets systemic factors contributing to burnout through interventions such as workload redistribution, flexible scheduling, leadership development in supportive management, and the creation of psychologically safe work environments. Organizational policies are adapted to embed resilience as a core value, ensuring that wellness resources, restorative spaces, and mental health services are accessible to all staff. By integrating these tiers, the model fosters a coordinated approach to burnout prevention and resilience-building across healthcare settings. Outcome monitoring, including burnout prevalence, job satisfaction, mental health indicators, and patient care quality, ensures continuous evaluation and improvement. This resilience-building model provides a scalable, evidence-informed framework to enhance nurse well-being, strengthen workforce retention, and promote high-quality patient care in high-stress health systems globally.
Keywords
Resilience-building model, Nurse burnout, High-stress, Health systems
Citations
IRE Journals:
Christiana Adeyemi , Opeoluwa Oluwanifemi Ajayi , Irene Sagay , Sandra Oparah
"A Resilience-Building Model for Addressing Nurse Burnout in High-Stress Health Systems" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 3 Issue 9 2020 Page 399-416
IEEE:
Christiana Adeyemi , Opeoluwa Oluwanifemi Ajayi , Irene Sagay , Sandra Oparah
"A Resilience-Building Model for Addressing Nurse Burnout in High-Stress Health Systems" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 3(9)
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