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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. What Is Nurse Burnout? 1 What is the Number One Cause of Nurse Burnout?

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Self-Care for Nurses: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Well-Being

The Gypsy Nurse

Long hours, high patient volumes, difficult working conditions, and the emotional toll of caring for others can lead to nurse burnouta state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. Nurse burnout not only affects job performance but also has a significant impact on personal well-being.

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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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The Shift Towards Autonomy: Nurses Leading the Charge for Flexible Scheduling

Daily Nurse

Nurses are the backbone of our nation’s healthcare system, tirelessly providing essential care to patients day and night. Yet, research suggests that many nurses are considering leaving the profession within the next two years. This type of self-scheduling is considered an ‘alternative workforce model.’

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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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Critical Care Association President Wants Nurses to be Heard

Nurse.com

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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Recharge and Reconnect: Nature’s Influence on Nurse Mental Health

Daily Nurse

High stress levels can drain nurses’ energy, impede attention and critical thinking, and ultimately lead to declining patient care and outcomes. Fortunately, here’s where nature can help nurses. In fact, in a recent study published in BMC Nursing, resilience in nurses was found to reduce nurse burnout significantly.