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Ethics, Professional*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the process of overcoming professional burnout among clinical nurses. METHODS: Data were collected from 12 clinical nurses through in-depth interviews about their actual experiences. The main question was "How do you describe your experience of the process of overcoming professional burnout?" Qualitative data from the field notes and transcribed notes were analyzed using the grounded theory methodology developed by Strauss & Corbin. RESULTS: The core category of experience of the process of professional burnout among clinical nurses was identified as "Keeping a balance by awakening-relaxing-coexisting". The participants used six interactional strategies such as 'Confronting problems', 'Exposing problems', 'Laying the mind's burdens down', 'Taking a breather', 'Seeing from a different perspective', 'Accepting realities'. The results of overcoming process of professional burnout were 'Coexisting' and 'Revitalizing'. CONCLUSION: The results of this study provide useful information for designing supportive programs and policies to solve professional burnout in clinical nurses.
Burnout, Professional

Objectives: Public health dentists in the Philippines are being made to treat more patients and do other tasks despite being underpaid. Despite this, there is a dearth of information on burnout and its association with Filipino public-school dentists. Thus, this study aimed to assess the burnout levels and their association with the amount of work and sleep quality.

Methods: There were 10 out of 14 dentists from the Caraga Region who responded and answered a self-directed and self-reported online questionnaire composed of 52 questions that gauged sociodemographic data, sources of burnout, level of burnout, lower back pain, and sleep quality.

Results: Based on the results of the study, dentists with more than 40,000 patients (rs=0.81, p=0.005), in charge of more than one municipality (rs=0.67, p=0.035) and more than one school (rs=0.67, p=0.035), and with poor sleep (rs=1, p=0.005) experience more burnout.

Conclusion: The level of burnout is high in Filipino public-school dentists. In this study, burnout was associated with dentists who have poor sleep, having to serve more than 40,000 patients, more than one municipality, and more than one school. The legal bases for oral health and other pertinent memorandum orders from concerned government organizations should be revisited.

Professional identity is the nurse's collection of beliefs about what it “means to be” and to “act like” a nurse. This represents his/her “philosophy of nursing” and it has a direct influence on how actual “roles and responsibilities” are followed. In other words, professional identity is the “foundational reference” in the nurse's cognitive process to which decisions are being made. Moreover, these are the values and beliefs held by the nurse as guiding principles in thinking, behaving, acting, communicating, and interacting with patients, the patient's family, and other members of the healthcare team. As a practical science, nursing education has introduced the importance of reflective learning in the clinical setting when providing care to patients and in building nurse-patient relationships. This means that there is a developing awareness of assisting, encouraging, and teaching both students and professional nurses to become thoughtful individuals, capable of critical thinking and analogy to come up with innovative ideas. Reflection in this mode of instruction is considered as a tool for the analysis of nursing practice nurturing both the understanding of professional nursing and the building of important thoughtful approaches essential for providing nursing care in multifaceted and dynamic working conditions. As a result, reflection, as an instructional method, has been included in many nursing curricula. However, the concept of reflection within the context of developing a professional identity has scarcely been defined to adequately identify research and educational indicators. This concept analysis aims to describe attributes, antecedents, and consequences of reflection in the development of professional identity in nursing and to provide clear evidence for nursing educators/faculty that support the systematic development of professional nurses as they advance in practice from the undergraduate to the graduate programs.
Reflection ; Professional Identity ; Professional Nursing

Background: The phenomenon of smoking in health workers is rather common. In Vietnam, data on smoking in different demographics is quite rich, but research on the medical staff is sparse.\r\n', u'Objectives: To discover the smoking behavior and to identify predictors of smoking status among health workers in Hue Central hospital. \r\n', u'Subjects and methods: The questionnaire of a global survey on tobacco use among health professionals was adapted for data collection on a sample number of 749. \r\n', u'Results: Research participation rates reached 83.2% (65.6% female compared with 34.4% male). Overall smoking rate is just 14.7%, but much more prevalent among male subject (over 20-fold vs female), among physicians than nurses, among over-30-year old cohorts than among under 30 year old cohorts. One main predictor of smoking is the belief of health professionals on their role as non-smoking exemplary.\r\n', u'Conclusion: The results highlight the importance of promoting the belief of health professionals about the no-smoking atmosphere as a good model for patients.\r\n', u'\r\n', u'
Smoking ; health professional

Retrospective study within 3 years (5/1994-5/1997) shows that the annual rate of occupational accident (OCA) cases was 7.65% and 4.81% numbers of people (4.15% males and 0.66% females). Related factors included: rate of OCA cases according to occupation, seniority, professional level, frequency of time, environment, protective measures. The rate of OCA cases increased on July, August, and September
Accidents, Occupational ; Professional Corporations

Integrative Medicine ; Professional Competence

Physicians ; Professional Misconduct

Physicians ; Professional Misconduct

Burnout, Professional ; Humans