Burnout in the intensive care unit professionals.
BACKGROUND
Professional burnout has been widely explored in health care. We conducted this study in our hospital intensive care unit (ICU) in United States to explore the burnout among nurses and respiratory therapists (RT).


METHODS
A survey consisting of two parts was used to assess burnout. Part 1 addressed the demographic information and work hours. Part 2 addressed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Service Survey.


RESULTS
The analysis included 213 total subjects; Nurses 151 (71%) and RT 62 (29%). On the emotional exhaustion (EE) scale, 54% scored "Moderate" to "High" and 40% scored "Moderate" to "High" on the depersonalization (DP) scale. Notably 40.6% scored "Low" on personal accomplishment (PA) scale.


CONCLUSIONS
High level of EE, DP and lower PAs were seen among two groups of health care providers in the ICUs.
Departments of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
Kalpalatha K
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Guntupalli
Department of Innovation and Research, Christus Spohn Health System, Corpus Christi, USA.
Sherry
S
Wachtel
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of medicine, Houston, USA.
Antara
A
Mallampalli
Department of Medicine, section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Texas A and M University, Texas USA.
Salim
S
Surani
Burnout nurses; intensive care unit nurses; sleepy nurses; sleepy therapist