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Burnout

An emotional condition marked by tiredness, loss of interest, or frustration that interferes with job performance. Burnout is usually regarded as the result of prolonged stress.

Mentioned in: Stress Reduction

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burnout,

a popular term for a mental or physical energy depletion after a period of chronic, unrelieved job-related stress characterized sometimes by physical illness. The person suffering from burnout may lose concern or respect for other people and often has cynical, dehumanized perceptions of people, labeling them in a derogatory manner. Causes of burnout peculiar to the nursing profession often include stressful, even dangerous, work environments; lack of support; lack of respectful relationships within the health care team; low pay scales compared with physicians' salaries; shift changes and long work hours; understaffing of hospitals; pressure from the responsibility of providing continuous high levels of care over long periods; and frustration and disillusionment resulting from the difference between job realities and job expectations.

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Burnout

Dentistry A method of preparing a mould to receive casting metal
Drug slang A regional term for (1) A heavy abuser of drugs (2) Heavy abuse of drugs per se
Gynecology See Cervical burnout
Materials science A ‘stress’ pattern seen in solid materials when subjected to red heat
Psychiatry A stress reaction developed by persons working in an area of unrelenting occupational stress, resulting in decreased work performance, fatigue, insomnia, depression, increased susceptibility to physical illness, and alcohol or drug abuse for temporary relief
Radiation biology Rapid decrease in neutral particle density in a plasma discharge, which occurs when the ionization rate—which converts neutrals to ions and electrons—exceeds the rate of recombination, neutralising ion, and the rate of influx of neutral particles
Social medicine Compassion fatigue A feeling of hopeless frustration often accompanied by depression, experienced by workers in certain fields; in the health care field, without an active, self-renewing support group, nurses, and social workers assigned to AIDS units, oncology, and geriatrics—in which one encounters a high volume of dementia, deterioration, and death—drift toward callousness and desire to change fields
Sports medicine The state of boredom with exercise often related to overtraining
Management Rest, cross-training

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burnout [bern´out]

emotional and physical exhaustion resulting from a combination of exposure to environmental and internal stressors and inadequate coping and adaptive skills. In addition to signs of exhaustion, the person with burnout exhibits an increasingly negative attitude toward his or her job, low self-esteem, and personal devaluation.

Strategies for preventing and managing burnout include utilizing assertiveness techniques, improving problem-solving and decision-making skills, clarifying personal values and setting realistic personal goals, learning and using coping mechanisms to deal with emotions, ensuring oneself adequate relaxation and recreation, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and minimizing stressors at work and at home.

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burnout,

n 1. a state that occurs when energy is used up faster than it is restored.
2. psychological and physical fatigue of a caregiver resulting in apathy and depression.

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burnout,

n the elimination by heat of an invested pattern from a set investment to prepare the mold to receive casting metal.

burnout, high heat,

n the use of temperatures higher than 1100° F (593.5° C) to effect wax elimination and prepare the mold to receive casting metal.

burnout, inlay (wax),

n the elimination of wax from an invested inlay flask. See also wax elimination.

burnout, job,

n the condition of having no energy left to care, resulting from chronic, unrelieved job-related stress and characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion and sometimes by physical illness.

burnout, radiographic,

n the excessive penetration of the radiographic beam of an object or part of an object, producing a totally black, or overexposed, area on the radiograph.

burnout, wax,

n See burnout, inlay and wax elimination.

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burnout

Drug slang 1. A heavy abuser of drugs 2. Street argot for heavy abuse of drugs Gynecology See Cervical burnout Psychiatry A stress reaction developing in persons working in an area of unrelenting occupational demands Clinical ↓ work performance, fatigue, insomnia, depression, ↑ susceptibility to physical illness, reliance on alcohol or other drugs of abuse for temporary relief. See Flight-or-fight response, Old Soldier syndrome. Cf Adaptation response, Alarm stage.