Another 1997 study suggested that the increasing intensity of work and the regular exposure to potentially violent patients is another significant stressor that accounts for job burnout among CMHNs.
A much earlier study from 1987 was also cited by the authors because it specifically identified two factors as unique sources of stress for psychiatric nurses: patient contact and administrative and organizational factors. In that regard, the authors reported the collective findings of a series of studies from 1985 to 1996 that further detailed the roles of exposure to violent and disruptive patients, staff shortages, and conflicts with fellow staff members and patients' families as significant sources of vocational stress related to job burnout in the mental health nursing field. Two separate studies in that series from 1989 and 1995 both determined...
"Stress and burnout in community mental health nursing: a review of…
