Which situation on a psychiatric-mental health unit is most likely to cause repeated stress arousal leading to burnout in nursing staff?
1. Administering medications to schizophrenic patients daily
2. Responding to hospital psychiatric emergencies once per month
3. Working without enough nursing staff every day for 6 weeks during staff vacations
4. Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient on rare occasions
Answer: 3
Explanation: Burnout consists of 3 stages: stress arousal, energy conservation, and exhaustion. In general, it will occur after recurrent episodes of stress arousal such as working short-staffed every day for a long period of time. Administering medications to patients daily is a usual part of the job and should not cause undue stress. Rarely performing CPR and responding to an emergency once a month, though stressful, would not cause the repeated stress arousal responsible for initiating burnout.
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