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How Can We Turn Burnout into Engagement?

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Oct 23, 2025 by Health Sciences
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 4.8 stars
Content Quality: 5.0 stars
Effectiveness: 5.0 stars
Ease of Use: 4.0 stars
Overview:

An epidemic of burnout among health care professionals is affecting quality, safety, and health care system performance. To help reverse the worrying trend, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) partnered with experts around the world to create Finding & Creating Joy in Work. This 12-week virtual training full of new thinking, resources, strategies, frameworks, and solutions will help workforces truly thrive — not just survive. Learn more at Joy in Work

Type of Material:

  • Animation video which refers the listener to the Institute of Health White Paper on the Joy in Work.
Recommended Uses:

  • This could be used as an introduction to begin a study on burnout in nursing. 
  • This is for use in academics, information for the profession, in-services, and in organizations.
Technical Requirements:

  • Internet access
  • YouTube App or web browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:

The 1.5-minute animation did not list their goals. However, the video pointed to the Institute of Health Framework for Improving Joy in Work, which has four goals. 

  • Describe the importance of joy in work and workforce well-being (the “why”)
  • List four steps leaders can take to improve joy in work and workforce well-being (the “how”)
  • Review the IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work: Nine critical components of a system for ensuring a joyful, engaged workforce (the “what”)
  • Define key change ideas for improving joy in work, along with examples from organizations that helped test them
  • Describe measurement and assessment tools for gauging efforts to improve joy in work
Target Student Population:

  • Graduating nursing students, nurses, and students/individuals researching the possibility of attending Nursing school.
  • College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

  • Basic computer skills.

 

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

  • Provides an honest look at nurses' feelings, the work pressure, and the psychological effects.
  • The content is accurate, valid, and reliable.
  • The material presents learning through videos.
  • Important factors for nurses and nurse leaders to consider were presented.
  • The content is up to date.
  • The content is general and is helpful for every nurse.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

  • The material is presented with clarity, focus, and organization.
  • This material is concise and short enough to not overwhelm learners.
  • The subject matter is a good supplement for nurses.
  • Concepts are clearly presented.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

  • Easy-to-use link to the YouTube video.
Concerns:

  • The first 1.5-minute video was easy to access, but then getting to the site at the end of the video for more information was a little more challenging.
  • The video does not include closed captioning or a transcript.
Other Issues and Comments:

  • The video provides an honest and realistic view of the profession of nursing, especially the culture in which RNs are educated to think of themselves as "caring," "serving," and "sacrificing."  
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