Open AccessTowards Understanding Liminal Fatigue in Nursing
Author(s) -
Flores James,
Larsen Ethan P.,
Rao Arjun H.,
Sasangohar Farzan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society annual meeting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1071-1813
pISSN - 2169-5067
DOI - 10.1177/1071181319631256
Subject(s) - liminality , burnout , construct (python library) , chronic fatigue , narrative , psychology , medicine , nursing , chronic fatigue syndrome , clinical psychology , physical therapy , sociology , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology , programming language
While acute and chronic fatigue have been studied extensively in nursing (a profession especially prone to fatigue, with implications for patient safety), the accumulation of fatigue beyond acute has not been well-studied, nor have studies researched when chronic fatigue begins, or how they contribute to burnout. This paper frames this transitional category as a novel construct called liminal fatigue. We present a narrative literature review to ground this construct which may aid future methods to identify and mitigate fatigue accumulation contributing to chronic fatigue and burnout.
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