Samantha Jacoby

Topic: Burnout in healthcare and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

1. Introduction:
a. The purpose of this paper is to describe, to discuss, to explore, and to inform
about the variables that indicate burnout in healthcare workers, specifically
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists.
b. Following the statistics of working conditions, job satisfaction, and burnout is an
effective way for researchers to determine patterns that could potentially be
altered to decrease rates of burnout within the field of nurse anesthesia.
2. Body:
a. Job satisfaction increases substantially when the employer allows for greater
autonomy.
i. Autonomy is the agreement to respect another's right to self-determine a
course of action; support of independent decision making.
b. Researchers used the Big Five personality test to determine which personality
characteristics had a positive impact in decreases the rates of burnout in
healthcare workers.
i. Agreeableness, stability, and openness scored the highest.
c. In order to study the rate of turnover, researchers had to use the variable turnover
intentions instead.
i. Turnover intention rates are the rates of employees with the intention of
looking for a new job, either for higher pay, retirement, or opportunity for
more job autonomy.
3. Conclusion:
a. Researching work conditions, job satisfaction, and burnout is a great way to
determine and follow patterns found in the statistics can help healthcare facility
increase job satisfaction within their facilities and decrease the number of burnout
and turnover intention within the field of medicine.
b. Rates of burnout within the healthcare field, specifically CRNA’s, is substantially
high, and statistics seem to only be rising.
4. Reference:

Boyd, D. (2017). Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Working Conditions and

Outcomes: A Review of the Literature. AANA Journal, 85(4), 261–269.

Brown Mahoney, C. (2020). Turnover, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction of Certified

Registered Nurse Anesthetists in the United States: Role of Job Characteristics
and Personality. AANA Journal, 88(1), 39–48.

Del Grosso, B. (2019). Burnout and the Nurse Anesthetist: An Integrative Review. AANA
Journal, 87(3), 205–213.