• Halle L Stutting.
• Halle L. Stutting is a registered inpatient nurse, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and a DNP student at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Crit Care Nurse. 2023 Dec 1; 43 (6): 485648-56.

BackgroundProfessional burnout is a well-studied phenomenon marked by feelings of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and decreased accomplishment. Affecting nearly half of all nurses, burnout presents a threat to health outcomes of the nurse, patient, organization, and society. Despite a growing literature on professional burnout, specific interventions that address key contributing factors have not been well described.ObjectiveThe primary aim of this integrative literature review was to evaluate the relationship between rest breaks and professional burnout among registered nurses.MethodsA literature search was performed in the APA (American Psychological Association) PsycInfo, CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Cochrane Library, Embase, and PubMed databases using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses as a reporting guideline.ResultsFive articles were selected for final synthesis; 1 was of "high" quality and 4 were of "good" quality. The literature showed that rest breaks were protective against professional burnout among registered nurses, especially when integrated with nursing management support, staffing support, and complementary strategies. Several threats to validity were identified as limitations among the articles selected for final synthesis.ConclusionsRest breaks are effective in decreasing professional burnout among registered nurses, especially when combined with management support, staffing support, and complementary strategies. Future research should focus on a deeper evaluation of staffing support models, as well as identifying how nursing leaders can integrate complementary strategies across health care settings to reduce burnout.©2023 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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