Question

Doug is an emergency room nurse in a large, underfunded, public hospital. Lately, he finds himself assuming that the patients he sees are just trying to get free drugs to feed an addiction. Just yesterday a little boy was brought in with a broken arm, and doug found that he was completely indifferent to the boy’s pain. What aspect of job burnout does this exemplify?.

Answer 1

Doug's  job burnout exemplifies Depersonalization.

What is Job Burnout?

Job Burnout is defined as stress that is work related causing emotional depletion and exhaustion leading to a decreased accomplishment in  one's occupation.

The MBI, Maslach Burnout Inventory is used to measure of job burnout in three subscales such as

• Emotional exhaustion (EE)
• Depersonalization (DP)
• Professional accomplishment (PA)

Depersonalization refers to a negative and feeling of detachment  to job.

From this, we can conclude that Doug being indifferent to the boy’s pain exemplifies Depersonalization.

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