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Volume 8
Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Community Nursing 2018
November 19-21, 2018
November 19-21, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa
International Conference on
Community Nursing and Public Health
Reigniting a passion for community health nursing-moving beyond the effect of burnout, building
resilience with trust
Colleen Davis
Vuselela Davis, South Africa
Statement of the Problem:
Community nursing plays a key role for the people within that community to be active in civil
society. Community nurses should be knowledgeable, caring and professional healthcare practitioners who have the ability to
recognize, treat and prevent health problems that stop the community from thriving and being active within the economy of
their country. In this country many disruptions occur within the healthcare settings including access to resources, internal and
external political factors and stressors related to working in a complex health environment. Community nurses are exposed
to incivility and the distress of their patient’s conditions. Research has found that working within this type of environment
increases the risk of burnout. Burnout affects the community nurses ability to care for others and causes exhaustion, cynicism
and inefficiency. Burnout contributes to an inability to safely and effectively address the complex needs within that community.
This leads to a breakdown in trust and communication within the community health system. If unable to work together
effectively, the entire system is negatively affected and cannot provide the service it was created for. The effect of rudeness, loss
of trust and uncertainty on the human brain is well researched in neuroscience. It leads to the inability of the community nurse
to serve her community with passion and compassion. The purpose of this talk is to enable community nurses to recognize
what burnout is, what effect it has on the individual and how we can avoid it.
Findings:
Nurses in a South African context are faced with daily stressors and uncertainty hindering their ability to serve the
communities they provide a service to.
Conclusion & Significance:
Burnout within the community health setting has a knock-on effect, it can be prevented by
building resilience, improving leadership and creating an environment based on trust.
Biography
Colleen Davis is registered as a primary health care nurse with the South African Nursing Council. Colleen has fourteen years’ experience in different independent
school health clinic settings. She has extensive experience in learning and development in a private hospital setting and has branched into executive coaching.
Colleen’s passion is the development of women in leadership, supporting leaders as they grapple with their identify function as a leader. Colleen believes that
nurses, given the right support, can change the world. Colleen holds a black belt in karate (JKA), is a cancer survivor, wife and mother to two teenagers. She is a
dynamic speaker and motivator, encouraging hope in an uncertain world.
colleen@vuseleladavis.comColleen Davis, J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C6-047