title: Motivation, leadership, empowerment and confidence: their relation with nurses' burnout.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Burnout is usually defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from long-term involvement in work situations that are emotionally demanding. A great deal of researches has been devoted to the understanding of factors contributing to burnout and the negative effects that burnout has in the cost and the quality of the provided healthcare.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many researchers believe that in difficult and stressful working conditions the work environment should be changed in order to reduce burnout levels successfully. Indeed, recent studies have highlighted the role of human resources management in burnout. It has been widely recognized that human resource management policies should be at the core of any sustainable solution that aims to increase health care systems performance and efficient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Motivation, leadership, empowerment and confidence are very important factors that should be considered in this direction because they are strongly related with burnout levels.
authors: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece.
authors: Ioanna V
authors: IV
authors: Papathanasiou
authors: State Mental Hospital of Attica "Daphne", Greece.
authors: Evangelos C
authors: EC
authors: Fradelos
authors: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece.
authors: Christos F
authors: CF
authors: Kleisiaris
authors: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece.
authors: Konstantinos
authors: K
authors: Tsaras
authors: General Hospital of Kozani, Greece.
authors: Malamati A
authors: MA
authors: Kalota
authors: Nursing Department, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors: Lambrini
authors: L
authors: Kourkouta
keywords: burnout; confidence; empowerment; leadership; mental health; motivation