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Reflecting on Life as an ICU Nurse During COVID-19: Mental Health

The Gypsy Nurse

Perspectives from former COVID ICU Nurses Amanda, RN “I would not have become a nurse if I knew a global pandemic was in the future ,” Amanda, an ER and ICU nurse, says. Amanda has been a nurse for four years and enjoyed her work pre-pandemic. Amanda describes her mental health as good before COVID.

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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., 2011; Forsyth et al., 2021; Romppanen et al.,

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Collaboration: The key to patient care success

American Nurse

Despite the exceedingly high turnover rate of ICU nurses nationwide, Raritan Bay Medical Center’s ICU had an RN turnover rate of 3% in the third quarter of 2022. In the last quarter of 2022, and year to date in 2023, we have a 0% nurse turnover rate. The program, Grow Your Mental Health, focuses on mindful breathing.

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Nurse.com and HOLLIBLU Join Together To Grow Nurse Community

Nurse.com

Growing nurse support. According to our 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report , 29% of nurses (across all licenses) are considering leaving the profession, compared to only 11% in our 2020 survey. This percentage can be attributed to different factors, including staffing concerns and nurse burnout.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Cara Lunsford

Minority Nurse

She ’ s also the host of Nurse.com ’ s NurseDot Podcast and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting a variety of voices within the nursing industry while also speaking to her personal experiences as an RN and founder of HOLLIBLU, a social networking app exclusively for nurses (acquired by Nurse.com in 2022).

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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. Takeaways: Resilience helps prevent nurse burnout. Continuing education and professional development aid burnout reduction and improve nurse retention. Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. Research agenda.

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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. After trying to get an appointment with a mental health professional for 2 weeks, Reese tells the nurse manager that she needs to take a leave of absence or she’ll have to quit.