Daily Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

They’re natural, cuddly stress relievers that can improve cardiovascular health and decrease loneliness. That’s why it can be an excellent idea for nurses to adopt a pet of their own, especially if they’re experiencing anxiety, depression, or another mental health issue. Or a cat lover.

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American Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. What does the literature say?

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Celayix

JANUARY 17, 2024

But the phenomenon of nurse burnout has taken over the healthcare community in the last decade, and it’s taking its toll on the nursing workforce at large. According to a recent study, a staggering 95% reported feeling burnt-out in their nursing position within the last three years. What Causes Nurse Burnout?

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Nurse.com

MARCH 2, 2023

While these fears are natural, placing limits for yourself in the workplace is essential to supporting your own needs — both physical and mental. Start with yourself Saying no can be difficult when you’re always caring for others. Something I tell people often is you have to create your own definition of what a nurse is,” she said.

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The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Jogan Health provided this article. Self-care.” And if you’re a travel nurse, you should be practicing self-care for travel nurses. Learn why self-care is so important, especially for travel nurses, and quick ways you can implement self-care today.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This can have negative side effects like physical fatigue, emotional exhaustion , and increased anxiety, making burned-out nurses feel like they’re fighting a cold. Many nurses know that burnout exists, but more may need to learn how to care for themselves when exhausted.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2024

As a nurse, you ’ re empathetic and compassionate and go out of your way to ensure you provide your patients with the best possible care. But when it comes to looking after yourself, self-care may get prioritized far down the list – or not at all. Nurses need to be aware of their unique needs.

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Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 30, 2023

Nurse burnout is not a new concept. Nurses have been experiencing burnout for decades. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, more Nurses than ever are experiencing burnout, making it a hot topic in the Nursing community. These stressors result in physical, mental, and emotional fatigue.

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The Gypsy Nurse

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Defined as the “physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress,” many elements of nursing are responsible: long hours, emotional exhaustion, trauma, and many say Covid. However, nursing burnout has been a factor long before Covid. Burnout is growing, yet the nurse still perceives the symptoms as normal.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 25, 2024

Having to manage their disabilities while dealing with the fast-paced demands of nursing may make them more vulnerable to burnout or even lead them to leave the nursing profession altogether. So, what are some ways nurses with disabilities can practice self-care to prevent burnout?

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

What was frequently confused as burnout in previous years has recently been accurately identified as moral injury for nurses. The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. How nurses experience moral injury.

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The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 27, 2023

Public Perception Nursing – a job once derived from compassion, caring, and respect quickly turned into a political narrative with false accusations of deceit at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many false truths and accusations across social media, and the world, nurses took the brunt of the emotional attacks.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Workplace physical activity alone is unlikely to provide all the types of exercise necessary for maintaining both physical and mental health. These activities encourage you to focus purely on the present and pay close attention to your inner self. What are some things that can fit into your downtime?

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SelfCare for HealthCare

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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. First, we can talk about it and then take measures to get our youth back to a healthy mental state.

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American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 8, 2024

In turn, you’ll prevent career stagnation — a key driver of nurse burnout. It’s unfortunately not uncommon for nurses to feel stuck in their careers at some point, whether that’s because the work’s no longer challenging or you’re looking for a greater degree of professional autonomy.

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Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But this attitude often keeps these individuals from engaging in the self-care they need to protect their health. Compassion fatigue occurs when a person is physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted from caring for others. Providing patient care is a demanding role. What is compassion fatigue?

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

What was frequently confused as burnout in previous years, has recently been accurately identified as moral injury for nurses. The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. How nurses experience moral injury.

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Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

Nurses at the forefront of healthcare continue to face challenges that change how we provide Nursing care to our patients. As the Nursing field continues to evolve, here are some of the top Nursing trends to watch in 2023 and for the years to come.

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The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 11, 2023

This not only affects our physical health but hinders our emotional well-being, which is vital for all professions requiring compassionate care. In order to achieve harmony in both worlds, it’s essential to establish strategies that will create a healthy work-life balance for nurses.

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Nurse.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Natural disasters disrupt the daily functions of health care and leave nurses feeling strained and overwhelmed. Finding and practicing stress management strategies during these events can help nurses cope with stress and mitigate its effects. As unattainable as this can seem, taking care of your own needs is a must.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 24, 2023

Despite the mounting workplace pressures, more than two-thirds of nurses haven’t sought mental health support since the start of the pandemic. A survey from the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) discovered that 36% of nurses experience some stigma with seeking mental health support.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Make sure your employees have everything they need to do their jobs, including competitive pay, health benefits, adequate time off, and on-the-job perks that keep them going like free coffee and onsite mental health services. If necessary, refer them to an onsite social worker or mental health specialist.

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American Nurse

MAY 2, 2024

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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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A self-proclaimed millennial, Amanda Bettencourt , PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is serving a one-year term as president of the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Q: What are the most pressing issues for critical care nurses?

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Nurse.com

APRIL 21, 2023

The ANA chose the theme, “You Make a Difference,” to honor varying nursing roles and highlight the positive impact nurses have. The monthly celebration is broken down into four focus areas: self-care (May 1-7), nurse recognition (May 8-14), professional development (May 15-21), and community engagement (May 22-31).

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American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

Each of the nursing teams you’ll read about on the following pages found opportunities to collaborate, strategize, and implement successful projects and programs with their interprofessional teammates to enhance patient care and improve outcomes, engage nurses, and ensure a healthy work environment for everyone.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Many nurses pick nursing as a satisfying line of work that suits them, yet find that stress is a common factor in the field. Providing emotional labor to others doesn’t have to include burnout. Nursing is a field that requires a lot of energy, and that’s not going to change.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Nurses bear the burden of this highly demanding job — balancing safe patient care and high expectations with staffing shortages, patient load, bullying, and workplace violence or abuse. But nursing is more than just a stressful job. Data revealed that nurses were 18% more likely to die from suicide than the general population.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 6, 2024

On the job, nurses are compassionate and focused during stressful work conditions. However, this kind of work can drain nurses’ emotional energy to care for themselves and put them at risk for burnout and compassion fatigue, according to an article by the Holistic Nursing Practice.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I highlighted these insights in this summary of findings from a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study, which used hermeneutics (interpretation of written or spoken language) to identify emerging themes of the lived experience of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

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American Nurse

APRIL 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the ultimate stress test for our taxed healthcare system, and despite nurses’ immense fortitude, the effects of this stress have landed unfairly on their shoulders. See Beyond self-care.) See Beyond self-care.)

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2022

nurses and physicians manifest significant symptoms of burnout, including exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased productivity. According to the report, factors contributing to nurse burnout include challenging workloads and work schedules, staffing ratios, inefficient workflows, and time spent on administrative tasks.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

After her mom died of breast cancer, she had to take care of her two brothers (who were 7 and 13 at the time). Eventually, Johnson went to nursing school and got her degree in May 2022. As a registered nurse at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, I provide optimal care to patients and the community.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2024

PTSD can also be common with nurses who have experienced trauma in the workforce, leading to painful somatic symptoms such as body aches, headaches, and a lack of energy. Somatic movement can be helpful for nurses with PTSD, chronic pain, or any healthcare worker who wants to improve their mental health.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Even before the pandemic, healthcare providers experienced burnout and other negative mental health issues. Now more than ever, it is critical health systems take steps to support their staff's well-being. Then, they create and implement wellness programs that address the current environment causing burnout and stress.

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