Abstract
[This is an excerpt.] Burnout is used to describe the cognitive and emotional responses of practitioners to chronic emotional and interpersonal stress. Operating room nurses are a group engaged in nursing professions in special environments. Due to the long-term high-intensity and fast-paced work, professional mental and physical labour are also required, which can easily lead to job burnout of nurses (Li et al., 2021). We read with great interest a recent article in Journal of Advanced Nursing on burnout in operating room nurses and the relevance of potential traumatic events (Wang et al., 2022). The authors explored and compared the association between potential job-related traumatic events and burnout among operating room nurses under three different statistical approaches. [To read more, click View Resource.]