Nowadays, a lot of skyrocketing changes are occurring when it comes to work places and the employees. The volume of work increases every day, there are less workers, working from home is becoming more and more popular, which sounds good but can cause more problems than benefits. Professions that focus on helping others, such as health care workers, are more affected by these conditions than others. Among these professions exists a chronic shortage of workers, increase in volume of work, salaries are not rising, there is sometimes no opportunities for improvement and it all affects the workers and their physical and mental health. All this often causes burnout syndrome. The term “burnout” is mostly seen as similar to stress, and that is partly true, but there should be a distinct difference. Stress is usually a shortterm condition, while burnout is the result of a long-term exposure to stress, person's inability to deal with it, and resolve it in a proper and healthy way. This undergraduate thesis deals with burnout syndrome, differences between this syndrome and stress, and preventions, measures and strategies than can be used among health care workers to deal with this syndrome, alleviate it or to prevent it from happening. In order for these measures to be effective, there should exist effort, mindfulness and action from both the employee and the employer whose primary concern should be the health of his/her workers because the quality of their work depends on their health.