Strategies for preventing professional burnout in intensive care nurses
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The article analyzes professional burnout in intensive care nurses, a frequent condition in clinical contexts of high emotional demand, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal fulfillment. The aim was to identify effective preventive strategies through a narrative literature review of studies between 2015 and 2024, selected from databases such as Scopus, PubMed and CINAHL. The findings reveal that individual interventions such as emotional coping training, mindfulness practice, and brief psychological therapies are effective in improving resilience and emotional regulation. Likewise, organizational strategies, such as appropriate workload management, transformational leadership, professional recognition and improved internal communication, are consolidated as key protective factors. The study concludes that burnout prevention requires an integral, multicomponent and sustainable intervention, which articulates personal resources with institutional structural transformations, oriented to staff well-being and quality of care.
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