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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53025#.VLR_hsnQrzE Author(s)     Muhammad W. Darawad 1* , Hani Nawafleh 2 , Mahmoud Maharmeh 1 , Ayman M. Hamdan-Mansour 1,3 , Saleh N. Azzeghaiby 3   Affiliation(s) 1 Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan . 2 Faculty of Nursing, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Maan, Jordan . 3 Al-Farabi College for Dentistry and Nursing, Al-Farabi College, Riyadh, KSA . ABSTRACT Burnout among nurses is well documented in literature. Precursors of burnout such as time pressure need further study for better understanding. In Jordan literature, studies regarding time pressure and burnout among Jordanian nurses are scarce. This study aimed to 1) evaluate the relationship between time pressure and burnout, and 2) identify participants’ characteristics that may have relationship with time pressure and burnout. A descriptive correlational desig...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49354#.VI5REcnQrzE Author(s)   Laura Riolli , Victor Savicki Affiliation(s) College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento, USA . Western Oregon University, Monmouth, USA . ABSTRACT Employees face an increasing number of stressors that can originate from the actual performance of their duties, from the relationships with fellow workers and supervisors, and from organizational structures and expectations which accumulated over time results on burnout which contains the factor of depersonalization/cynicism. This conceptual paper focuses on an insidious pattern of behavior that evolves from chronic s...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51708#.VHVl22fHRK0 Author(s) José Manuel García-Arroyo * , María Luisa Domínguez-López Affiliation(s) Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain . ABSTRACT Burnout is a syndrome related to work over load and associated, generally, with the helping professions. Here we will study it in relation to the medical profession, considering the doctor’s personal aspects. For this purpose, we start with a group of physicians treated psychotherapeutically for suffering from burnout. The method is qualitative and consists of recording as accurately as possible the verbal expressions of the patients. Since...