Épuisement professionnel à l'hôpital de Béjaia

الملخص EN

Burnout is a result of persistent work-related stress and ongoing tension-it is the final stage of an adaptation breakdown that results from a long-term imbalance between the professional demands and resources of the individual (Grebot, E., 2008 :103).

Today, professionals are no longer affected by the traditional form of burnout where the pursuit of high-burn, socially significant, was met with the resistance of a work environment that wiped out professional hopes.

The influence of technological, economic, sociocultural and political factors has redrawn our living environment and our working conditions.

The changes that have reshaped our working environment are numerous and the stressors associated with it are new : corporate mergers, off shoring, flexibility, job outsourcing, telecommuting, new technologies of information and communication, (NICT), electronic monitoring, etc… Among the professionals who could be exposed to the negative effects of burnout during the exercise of their profession : police officers, firefighters, managers, health professionals (doctor and nurse) and in particular nurses.

It seems that they constitute a population at risk for psychological damage at work.

These nurses who are supposed to work with a suffering population that requires adequate and immediate care could encounter binding working conditions during the exercise of their profession (Canoui and Mauranges, 2004 : 112).

Nursing is commonly described as torn between three major functions cited: technical and hygiene acts, relationship work and the function of organization and administration.

In this article, we want to show the impact of burnout on the health of nurses and seek to find the cure.