Damage to medical safety brought about by job burnout and countermeasures

The paper gives a brief account of the basic concept of job burnout and the current state of job burnout among physicians and nurses,analyzes the damage job burnout brings about to medical safety and the causes,further explains theories related to job burnout,and puts forward some countermeasures: ① enhancing understanding of job burnout and relevant measures of intervention;② making rational work arrangements so as to guarantee the sound interaction between people and work;③ implementing active psychological interventions so as to keep the employees in a sound psychological state;④ encouraging the employees to get involved in safety control so as to promote safe behavior over a long period of time.