Theoretical Approach to Examining Effect of Burnout on Quality Care Services.

Offering high-quality care is a shared goal among all health systems. Unfortunately, the prevalence of nurse burnout jeopardizes the quality of care, patient safety, and staff well-being, thereby creating a serious practice concern. This article aims to discuss how the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory can assist in examining the link between burnout and the quality of care service. The COR theory was built around stress and the assumption of four resources necessary for human functioning. These resources are objects, personal characteristics, conditions, and energies. A lack of any of these four resources leads to increased levels of stress, causing burnout, which in turn affects nurses' ability to provide professional high-quality care to patients. Guided by this theory, researchers can examine the relationship between lack of resources, burnout, and quality care. As a result of this effort, interventions may be proposed to reduce burnout and improve quality of care and patient outcomes.