Palliative care is provided in a challenging environment, where professionals often have to make demanding ethical decisions and deal with death and dying. this article reports on the findings of a systematic review aimed at identifying described burnout levels in palliative care nurses and physicians, and the related risks and protective factors.. (healthday)—more than 60 percent of palliative care clinicians report burnout, according to a study presented at the american society of clinical oncology's inaugural palliative care in oncology. Physician burnout in palliative care is higher—over 62%—than the burnout rate reported in medical oncology—45%—according to a large survey of over 1,200 hospice and palliative care clinicians..
Palliative care prevents burnout. interestingly in the same issue of the supportive oncology journal there is an article by mougalian and collaborators looking at factors associated with burnout among oncology fellows. oncology fellows across the united states completed surveys that evaluated the level of burnout .. Palliative care; (2) an increase in professionals’ vulnerability: if burnout is described as a syndrome of exhaustion, evidenced by physical and psychological symptoms, professionals them-. Conversely, research has indicated that care providers who have insufficient palliative care education and experience in caring for those with palliative care needs feel less competent and often become susceptible to burnout (frey, boyd, foster, robinson, & gott, 2015)..
