Publication Date
2025
Presentation Length
Poster/Gallery presentation
College
Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing
Department
Nursing, School of
Student Level
Undergraduate
SPARK Category
Research
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Linda Wofford
SPARK Session
10:15-11:45
Presentation Type
Poster
Summary
This change project identifies that nurse burnout is a prevalent problem within the healthcare setting, specifically with nurses working in a critical care environment. Burnout can be described as a negative outcome resulting in exhaustion (emotional, mental, physical) due to stress. The population focused on is the nursing staff on the trauma intensive care unit at VUMC. The proposed recommendation for change is to have a mandatory resource nurse on every shift. Essentially, this nurse is one who has no patients and can be utilized to fill in for breaks and perform anything under the nurse's scope of practice when indicated. This project includes a budget that allows for resource nurse training as well as an additional nurse per hour. The timeline expected is over the course of 6 months and it will be evaluated using a pre and post Maslach Burnout Inventory survey. That same survey will help deem if the intervention is effective and should be permanent or not.
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Annelise; Pendleton, Samantha; and Dowd, Hailey, "Preventing Nurse Burnout in the Trauma ICU" (2025). SPARK Symposium Presentations. 337.
https://repository.belmont.edu/spark_presentations/337
