Facilitators Associated with Nursing Burnout in the Ambulatory Care Setting as COVID-19 Subsides: A Rapid Review

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the healthcare industry and its workforce, particularly nurses, who have been at the forefront of patient care. As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, attention is turning to the long-term effects of the crisis on nurses’ mental health and well-being, and specifically nursing burnout. Prevalent risk factors related to nursing burnout often historically involve high workload, insufficient support and/or resources, work–life imbalance, and even lack of autonomy and organization climate challenges. Understanding the factors that contribute to nursing burnout to help mitigate it is vital to ensuring the ongoing health and well-being of the nursing workforce, especially since the ongoing waning of coronavirus (COVID-19). This rapid review identifies 36 articles and explores the latest research on nursing burnout in outpatient (ambulatory care) healthcare facilities as the global pandemic continues to subside, and therefore identifies constructs that suggest areas for future research beyond previously identified contributing factors of nursing burnout while the pandemic virus levels were high.