NRS-493VN Professional Capstone and Practicum Benchmark-Capstone Project Change Proposal for Nursing Burnout and Mental Fatigue

NRS-493VN Professional Capstone and Practicum Benchmark-Capstone Project Change Proposal for Nursing Burnout and Mental Fatigue. The U.S. is experiencing a pandemic that has not occurred to this extent since the 1918- 1919 Spanish Flu (Ross, 2020). The virus has created a public health crisis and led to many challenges for healthcare providers and stressed healthcare systems. The reality of healthcare before COVID-19 presented concerns, and media focused on the number of ventilators and hospital beds. Still, the discussion was lacking around the availability of nurses and qualified health care providers (Ross, 2020). There should be significant concern about the number of qualified professionals and the number of healthy professionals who can care for sick patients and operate complicated ventilators (Ross, 2020). Regarding the discussion of health professionals, I am implying both mentally and physically, not “burned out.” Nursing burnout has been recognized by the World Health Organization and is related to the workplace (Ross, 2020). Burnout is triggered by workplace stress which is not managed effectively (Ross, 2020). Burnout is a stress response, much like post-traumatic stress syndrome, and is a concern for nurses (Ross, 2020). In July 2019, the Joint Commission (TJC) released a Quick Safety Advisory of Combating Nurse Burnout in response to recent studies of increasing burnout among nursing staff (Ross, 2020). The advisory highlighted that 15.6% of nurses reported burnout, that emergency room nurses were at a higher risk, and that only 5% of healthcare organizations assisted staff with burnout (Ross, 2020). The TJC noted that organizations need to remove barriers to nurses’ workflow, staffing, and workplace environment