extended · article · 2016

Early career burnout among Dutch nurses: A process captured in a Rasch model

Jan Alexander de Vos; André Brouwers; Tineke Schoot; Ron Pat‐El; Peter Verboon; Gérard Näring; Richard M. Smith

• This study shows a hypothesized model of early career burnout among nurses as a process consisting of several phases, where personal accomplishment seems to develop independently. • Early career burnout might be explained as a sequential-developmental process which starts with fatigue and ends with severe exhaustion and depersonalisation towards patients. • Items measuring personal accomplishment all have an almost similar difficulty level which makes them not very suitable to measure changes in personal accomplishment that might be associated with changes in levels of burnout. • To understand the role of personal accomplishment in the process of burnout, new measures would have to be developed. This study investigates burnout among Dutch nursing graduates as a process by testing a sequential-developmental model. A sample of 237 respondents was recruited from a population of Dutch earl...