Job burnout is very common in the field of people-oriented service. Previous studies have shown that nurses, as a high incidence group of job burnout, are five times more likely to suffer from it than the general population, their job burnout will have a negative impact on the physical and mental health of their work, family and individuals. At present, there are not many researches on the intervention of nurses' job burnout at home and abroad, and the intervention at the individual level is mainly focused on the field of psychological counseling, namely, the methods of mindfulness decompression and cognitive adjustment, etc., in the field of career counseling, the intervention study on nurses' job burnout has not been paid much attention. In view of this, this research uses the Life-Design Counseling to carry on the intervention research to a nurse who has job burnout. According to the framework of the Life-Design Counseling, nine individual career consultations were carried out according to the case conceptualization of client.

    During the consultation process, the nurse reported that her various emotions and tiredness were relieved, she had a new understanding of her profession, she displayed new behaviors, the relationship between the department and the head nurse was eased, and her sense of value and significance increased. In the meantime, the Nurses Burnout scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Nurse Professional Identity Questionnaire were used to conduct a 4-month follow-up study. The results showed that the burnout of the nurse was alleviated significantly, and the five dimensions of burnout of the nurse were on the decline, the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were significantly decreased, and the score of the nurse's professional identity rating scale was on the rise. This shows that the whole counseling has achieved the desired effect and the Life-Design Counseling is effective in the intervention of nurses' job burnout.

    Career counseling is a kind of counseling that focuses on the professional field. This study is based on the discussion of the adaptation of Life-Design Counseling to the intervention of nurses' burnout, the intervention study on a nurse with job burnout was carried out by using the Life-Design Counseling. In practice, the nurse's job burnout was alleviated, and in theory, it expanded the new perspective and new thinking of the intervention of nurses' job burnout.