El Síndrome de Burnout: un riesgo permanente en el trabajo de enfermería

Abstract

Psychologists have been speaking about Burnout Syndrome since 1970s. This refers to professional erosion and stress, produced by maladjustment given among each professional’s expectancies and the job reality itself. when the proposed results and proposals are not achieved, despite having attempted in ways an within all possibilities, the frustration feeling appears and could unchain the sense of “being burned” or the Burnout syndrome.

The “burnout” is a clinical syndrome described in 1974 by Freudemberg, psychiatrist, who worked at a drug-addiction clinic in New York. When he had worked there for a year, he observed that most volunteers suffered a progressive energy loss up to the exhaustion, and presented symptoms such as anxiety and depression, as well as a decrease in motivation for their work, and aggressiveness with the patients.

When someone works whithous illusion, and even with disgust, frequently it is due to the beginning of Burnout syndrome or the burnt syndrome. This illness affects mostly  those whose work has a direct repercussion on other people lives: teachers, doctors or nurses, are some of the professionals affected by this kind of syndrome.