Lifestyle Behaviors and Burnout in Undergraduate Nursing Students: A National Cross-Sectional Study

Danielle J Durant1, Claudia Guerrazzi-Young, Normajean Colby

  • 1About the Authorsdurantda@musc.eduDanielle J. Durant, PhD, MS, MBA, is associate professor and division director, Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina and a recent a graduate, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Claudia Guerrazzi-Young, PhD, MS, is associate professor, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee. Normajean Colby, PhD, RN, is an associate professor, School of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania. Faith Chapman, MS, RN, is assistant nurse manager, Medical Surgical Department, Central Vermont Medical Center-University of Vermont Health, and former lecturer, School of Nursing, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. Jonah S. Dunn, RN, is an undergraduate student, State University of New York, Potsdam, New York. The authors thank Cathy Harrel, Leigh Shaver, Stephanie Smith, and Carmen Hernandez, clinical professors at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas A&M University, for providing access to their courses for the purposes of data collection.

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