The analysis suggested that burnout’s mediation function was less than complete. In fact,
modification indexes suggested that both of the workplace qualities with direct paths to burnout
staffing adequacy and use of a nursing model of care would further enhance the prediction of adverse events. The revised model with direct paths from each of these workplace qualities to adverse events made a substantial improvement in.Both of the added path coefficients were more
substantial than the paths from burnout to adverse events, with the path from exhaustion losing
statistical significance in the context of the added paths.