A nurse in a rural community is employed in a facility that has had a shortage of nurses for several years. As a result, several nurses have left the institution citing "burnout."

Question

To avoid risking burnout, the nurse regularly works out, practices yoga, socializes with friends once or twice a week, and participates in at least one annual national or state nursing conference. This approach to work-life balance reflects which concept within the framework of Caring Interventions?
A) Self-compassion
B) Self-care
C) Self-control
D) Self-actualizing

Answer 1

Answer: B

Given the circumstances in which the nurse finds himself, he has initiated the Caring Intervention of "self-care" to help him better cope with a stressful work environment. A major goal of adequate and appropriate self-care activity is to help the nurse avoid professional "burnout," which contributes to moral distress and has been shown to have an adverse effect on nurse-client interactions and the quality of patient care. Although self-care involves aspects of having compassion for the self, exercising self-control, and can be self-actualizing, "self-care" is the term included as part of the Caring Interventions framework that enhances nurses' professional practice and helps them to avoid "burnout."