Preventing and Alleviating Burnout

Dr. Michael Leiter

Nursing Presentation 2 Feb 2018

This ppt is from a talk on 2 February 2018 to nurses from healthcare settings across Victoria and beyond who contribute to the action learning of Deakin nursing students.

  • The distinction of burnout and engagement
  • Additional profiles: overextended, disengaged, and ineffective
  • Overextended is more pervasive and is often mislabeled as burnout
  • Improving workplace social dynamics can make a meaningful contribution.
  • The SCORE civility project is designed to improve those relationships
  • SCORES provides an example of working on multiple levels
    • Individual: Improving one’s participation in the social culture at work.
    • Work group: Working together to improve what happens between people
    • Organisational: Setting and living supportive policies.

 

 

Published by Dr. Michael Leiter

Michael is a registered Psychologist involved in organizational psychology for nearly twenty years. He has conducted extensive research on burnout in human service organizations and has contributed to extending the concept to other occupational sectors. He maintains active collaborations with colleagues in Europe, the USA, and Canada with whom he has published in journals, scholarly books, and the popular press.

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