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We’ve seen a lot in the media recently about the risk of burnout among healthcare professionals. Yet, we sometimes forget that volunteers are vulnerable to burnout, too.
Volunteers interact with residents experiencing pain, people who are dying, residents with challenging behaviors, and families who are hurting. Besides what they experience at the nursing home, volunteers may also develop stressful issues in their personal lives that compound their risk of burnout.
A regular employee receives a paycheck as a motivation for them to address burnout and stick with their job. A volunteer may find it easier to simply call it quits. Today let’s look at burnout from both the perspective of the volunteer and also the volunteer’s supervisor. After all, we need to find a way to keep those priceless volunteers!
