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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., 2019, Forsyth et al.,

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Recovering from Burnout: Tips on Healing from Exhaustion

Minority Nurse

Any nurse who’s worked long hours with no rest knows that burnout is real. In fact, 62% of nurses have experienced burnout, according to a 2020 survey. While the pandemic is over, nurses still experience exhaustion from too much stress and overexertion at the workplace.

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Patient prejudice toward minoritized nurses

American Nurse

Organization-wide interventions present the best option for addressing patient behavior and maintaining nurse retention. Takeaways: Many patients expect that the nurse who cares for them will be White and female, despite the growing diversity of the nursing workforce. Of 4 million nurses surveyed, 8.1%

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

An innovative approach to help new graduate nurses transition into practice Takeaways: As the nursing shortage continues, more new nursing graduates will take jobs in specialty areas such as critical care. Nursing graduates face many stressors and must be supported during their transition into practice.

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Young People Make More Mental Health-related ED Visits

SelfCare for HealthCare

The number of emergency department visits for children, teens and young adults experiencing mental health-related issues rose sharply from 2011 to 2020, according to data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Now, we intend to draw attention to this crisis facing our American youth by helping in any way we can.

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Empowering Tomorrow’s Nurses: Building Resilience for a Fulfilling Career

American Nurse

Nursing is a profession that offers both extraordinary rewards and profound challenges. The intensity of nursing education often stretches students to their limits, preparing them for the realities of patient care. With the ongoing decline in nurses working in rural areas (Wakefield et al., With 42.5% 2021; Hughes et al.,

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Don’t Call Us Heroes: Nursing Is a Calling — and a Profession

Relias

Instead of flowing capes, nurse heroes donned scrubs covered by paper jumpsuits, masks, and goggles. The public recognized that nursing is a calling, a deep-seeded passion for helping humankind. This was never more evident than in 2020. With the name “hero,” nurses are often expected to overextend.