The 9th International Nursing Conference 2018 450 “Nurses at The Forefront in Transforming Care, Science, and research” Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome in Nursing: A Systematic Review Esti Andarini 1 , Stefanus Supriyanto 2 and Tiyas Kusumaningrum 3 1 Master Student, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Campus C Mulyorejo, Surabaya, Indonesia 2 Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia 3 Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia esti.andarini-2016@unair.fkp.ac.id Keywords: Burnout, nursing, prevalence. Abstract: Background: The burnout syndrome is significant problem in modern working environtment and its prevalence has increased substantially. Objectives: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the literature on reducing nurse burnout, to estimate the prevalence of burnout, to identify the variables related to burnout and to propose a risk profile for this syndrome among the nursing. Methods: We identified articles through databases searching: Sage, Proquest, Science Direct, Springerlink, and EbscoHost, published between 2006- 2016, search terms include various combination of the terms “ Burnout Syndrome”, and “nursing”. Result: Five studies were included in this review. The prevalence of burnout among nursing professionals is high. Personal factors such as demographic variables, personal stress, and personality characteristics were predictive of burnout. Work related factors such as work stress, work environment, job characteristics and organizational variables were also found to be determinants of burnout in this population. Conclusion: The prevalence of burnout among nursing professionals is high. Personal stress, job satisfaction, work stress, quality of care, work environment are determinants of burnout. As a consequence specific action targets for hospital management are formulated to prevent burnout in nurses. Nurse staffing strategies need to be evaluated within developing context to ascertain in their effectiveness. 1 BACKGROUND Burnout has been studied extensively, with Freudenberger initiating the study of this syndrome in social services professionals. Nevertheless, Maslach and Jackson’s definitions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment. In health care, nurses have one of the highest rates of burnout. This syndrome influences different aspects of nursing health care. Numerous burnout risk factor, in the last decade, have been studied among nursing professionals, such as work experience, job satisfaction, personality, and sociodemographic factor. Prevalence of burnout reached 13% to 27% in developed countries (Norlund et al., 2010; Lindblom et al., 2006; Kant et al., 2004; Houtman et al., 2000; Aromaa dan Koskinen, 2004). Nurses are higher risk for burnout then other occupation (Maslach, 2003; Gelsema et al., 2006). Research showed that nurses reported high level of work stress (Hasselhorn et al., 2003; Smith et al., 2000; Clegg, 2001; McVicar, 2003) and became 30% until 50% reach clinical levels of burnout (Aiken et al., 2002; Poncet et al., 2007; Gelsema et al., 2006). The demands that burden the nurses (in terms of work setting, task description, responsibility, unpredictability and the exposure to potentially traumatic situations) and the resources they can rely on, are strongly related to the content of their job and their nursing specialty (Browning et al., 2007; Ergun et al., 2005; Eriksen, 2006; Kipping, 2000; Mealer et al., 2007). Moreover, busy and congested working conditions, emergency nurses often have to move from one urgency to another, with little recovery time (Alexander dan Klein, 2001; Gates et al., 2011). As a result, burnout rates are found to be very high in emergency nursing settings (Hooper et al., 2010; Potter, 2006).