Burnout in nursing and midwifery explored with Sharee Johnson

Nurse & Midwife Support Podcast

View the podcast transcript: https://www.nmsupport.org.au/news/podcast-Burnout-in-nursing-and-midwifery Registered psychologist, coach and author Sharee Johnson talks burnout in this podcast episode with new co-host Celeste Pinney. Sharee shares the wisdom of many years of experience working with doctors who have lived through burnout. Sharee offers insights and practical strategies for nurses and midwives to improve health and wellbeing and prevent or recover from burnout. Sharee explains the importance of understanding burnout as both an individual and organisational experience: "The very first, and most important thing, that everybody needs to hear is that burnout is not a mental illness, it's not something wrong with the individual. It's a mismatch or a relationship difficulty, if you like, between the individual and their workplace… When we're thinking about burnout, we do want to think about individual responsibility. It is about how you cope, how you ask for what you need, and how you develop support networks around yourself. We often talk in the work we do about having an internal scaffold and an external scaffold, both of which help hold you up, if you like. But we need to think about those individual skills of asking for help, regulating ourselves, being able to manage our mind effectively, having enough sleep, all of these things. (But) even if we do all of those things beautifully, if the workplace is toxic or dysfunctional, then it won't matter how skilled we are as individuals, the workplace is still problematic. So we need to use a both/and lens when we're talking about burnout." Listen to find out more about how you can identify if and why you may be experiencing symptoms of burnout, how to get the right support, and how we can gradually begin to create habits to shift our state and find our way back to wellbeing. If you’re dealing with burnout, Nurse & Midwife Support is here to support you: 1800 667 877 or by email: https://www.nmsupport.org.au/support Check out the rest of this newsletter: https://www.nmsupport.org.au/resources/newsletter/20