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There is a Mental Health Crisis in Nursing

The Nursing Site

Stubin, PhD, RN, assistant professor at Rutgers University – Camden (Camden, NJ), there is a “ mental health crisis in nursing. since 2019. COVID and the lockdown in 2019 and 2020 exacerbated mental health issues for nurses with increased anxiety and depression. That is an increase of 9.3%

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Self-care within hospice and palliative care nursing

American Nurse

A literature review identifies opportunities to support nurses working in these care settings. Establishing goals of care and providing education regarding hospice and palliative care philosophies can better prepare patients and families for the inevitable struggles at the end of life. What does the literature say?

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5 Ways To Reduce Nurse Compassion Fatigue

Nurse.com

Understanding the effects of this condition and finding ways to combat them can improve your overall well-being and help you provide compassionate care. As a nurse, you provide care with empathy and sensitivity, and compassion fatigue may cause you to feel disconnected from the compassion you usually have. Self-regulation.

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Nursing Burnout: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. Nurse burnout is a state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion caused by sustained work-related stressors.

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Broken trust

American Nurse

The evidence of physical depletion, burnout, moral suffering, compassion fatigue, degraded mental health, and suicide among clinicians is sobering. When that foundation of trust becomes vulnerable, people gradually lose confidence in the quality of care provided, doubt decisions, and ask, “How long can I continue?”

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Researchers Offer New Paradigm for Managing Adult ADHD

Consult QD

Further, this transforms the ADHD problem from a perspective of mental health disorder existing inside the skin to a single, functional condition occurring outside the skin, (ie, in the world of manageable action and behavior). Postgrad Med 2019; 131(7):461–472. Identify the “by when” of completion, then act on it.

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Electronic Cigarettes: Identifying College Students Using the Ask, Advise, and Refer Tobacco Cessation Model

American Nurse

Introduction THE RISING PREVALENCE in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) usage among college students is an emerging public health issue, marking a shift from traditional tobacco products to e-cigarettes (Fonseca Fuentes et al., 2019; Soneji et al., 2019; Jatlaoui et al., Angelini et al. Retrieved from [link] Chaumont, M.,