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Burnout is a negative condition characterized by the depletion of physical, emotional, and mental energy due to excessive work. Factors contributing to burnout include workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. Studies show that around half of nurses in the US experience burnout, with the number increasing post-COVID. Factors examined in nursing burnout include working patterns, workload, job support, and hospital characteristics. High workload is associated with burnout, while positive support factors and working relationships can protect against it. Nurse burnout has significant costs for both nurses and the economy, with each nurse leaving costing millions of dollars. Many nurses experience moral distress when their actions conflict with a patient's personal wishes, such as religious beliefs. In the first part of our discussion I would like to just get some general information about burnout in general out to you guys because a lot of people don't know what burnout is even though a lot of people do experience it. So I'm just going to be listing some bullet points that I think is important information for all of us to know. So burnout was first described by Herbert Schrodinger, a German-born American psychologist, as a negative condition characterized by the gradual depletion of physical, emotional, and mental energy due to excessive work. Christina Maslach, who by the way was married to Philip Zimbardo, who most people in the psychology field know he was the Stanford prison psychologist, but Christina Maslach is a driving force behind a lot of the research done in occupational burnout. According to her workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values are the factors that contribute to burnout in the workplace. While there is not a definite number or statistic, many studies report that around half of nurses in the United States have said that they have felt some kind of burnout. Post-COVID, that number has risen. Nursing is said to be an occupation with some of the highest rates of burnout. While personal problems may be a contributing factor for some nurses' burnout, it can also come from the organizational level. The factors that are examined when researching the levels of burnout in nurses include working patterns and shifts, workload, psychological demand, and complexity, job support, hospital characteristics, staff outcomes or job performances, patient outcomes, and individual attributes. 30 studies found an association between high workload and burnout. Evidence from 39 studies showed that having positive support factors and working relationships in places play a protective role towards burnout. By having a supportive management team, the levels of burnout can decrease or you can prevent it. Nurse burnout costs a lot, not only to the other nurses that have to pick up the extra workload when more nurses eventually end up leaving the field, but also to the economy. The estimated cost for each nurse leaving is between $37,700,000 and $58,400,000. This could be upward of $40 billion lost a year in America. A huge amount of nurses experience some type of moral distress when working at hospitals. There are so many different cultures in the United States and so many people have different medical wishes. Many nurses may think that a course of action is the best way to go, but are unable to do so because of a patient's personal wishes. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses do not take other people's blood. It goes against their religious beliefs. So many nurses, doctors, anybody in the medical field, they struggle with that because blood is an extremely common fix when somebody is losing a large amount of their blood supply.