title: Occupational Stress Management and Burnout Interventions in Nursing and Their Implications for Healthy Work Environments: A Literature Review.
abstract: This article reports on a literature review of workplace interventions (i.e., creating healthy work environments and improving nurses' quality of work life [QWL]) aimed at managing occupational stress and burnout for nurses. A literature search was conducted using the keywords nursing, nurses, stress, distress, stress management, burnout, and intervention. All the intervention studies included in this review reported on workplace intervention strategies, mainly individual stress management and burnout interventions. Recommendations are provided to improve nurses' QWL in health care organizations through workplace health promotion programs so that nurses can be recruited and retained in rural and northern regions of Ontario. These regions have unique human resources needs due to the shortage of nurses working in primary care.
authors.affiliation: Laurentian University bx_nowrouzi@laurentian.ca.
authors.forename: Behdin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nowrouzi
authors.affiliation: Laurentian University.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lightfoot
authors.affiliation: Laurentian University.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Larivière
authors.affiliation: Nipissing University.
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.affiliation: Laurentian University.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rukholm
authors.affiliation: Laurentian University.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schinke
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences North (Hospital).
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Belanger-Gardner
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000592:standards; D009864:Ontario; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards
keywords: nurses; occupational stress; quality of work life; workplace interventions