The nurse wellbeing self-assessment supports the model of leadership influence for health professional wellbeing.

BACKGROUND: Despite emerging evidence of effective strategies for reducing burnout among health professionals, health professional burnout continues increasing.
PURPOSE: A systematic Model of Leadership Influence for Health Professional Wellbeing is presented suggesting steps to measurably improve wellbeing by managing or mitigating stressors that generate burnout.
METHOD: This paper examines (a) the psychometric properties of the Nurse Wellbeing Self-Assessment's (NWSAT)© four 10-item scales and (b) whether and how the Model of Leadership Influence can apply NWSAT results to reduce burnout. Using nurse survey data (N = 1,394) from one large eastern US healthcare system, the four NWSAT scales are psychometrically evaluated.
FINDINGS: Predictive tests demonstrate the fit of the Model of Leadership Influence by documenting associations between NWSAT and burnout. All four NWSAT scales are strongly and inversely associated with burnout. DISCUSSION: Leaders can use NWSAT to systematically implement and evaluate a variety of strategies to improve staff wellbeing in one or more domains of NWSAT to manage or mitigate specific stressors that may otherwise contribute toward burnout.