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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. We outline what nurse burnout is, its risks, how to prevent it and how to address it if it’s happening to you.

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Breaking the Cycle of Nurse Burnout: USAHS DNP Alum to Present at Creating Health Work Environments Conference

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS), she is on a mission to address one of the professions most pressing issues: nursing burnout. I look forward to the numerous opportunities ahead in leadership, clinical, mentorship and advocacy.

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Happy Nurse Practitioner Week 2022

The Nurse Sabbatical

Happy Nurse Practitioner Week to all of my fellow nurse practitioners. November is always an interesting month for me to reflect on my career as a Nurse Practitioner. I became certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner in November of 2008. Why did I become a Nurse Practitioner?

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Is Nurse Burnout Causing More Trips to the Emergency Room?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurses are feeling overworked and undervalued, and since the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive nursing shortage, it has only gotten worse. Nurse and nurse practitioner burnout is known to have a direct impact on the patient’s experience, and now it’s leading to more emergency department visits.

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How to Avoid Nursing Burnout

Diversity Nursing

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. Nurses cannot pour from an empty cup.

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PBS NewsHour Explores What Makes Nurses Vulnerable to Burnout

Daily Nurse

In collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center and with support from the Pulitzer Center, Stephanie Sy reports from Columbus, Ohio, for a PBS NewsHour series, Critical Care: The Future of Nursing. The segment profiles four nurses at different places in their nursing careers and the impact of nurse burnout.

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The Nurses’ Strike Resolved

Empowered Nurses

Mount Sinai nurses are back to work with safe staffing ratios for all inpatient units “with firm enforcement so that there will always be enough nurses at the bedside to provide safe patient care, not just on paper.” This result in New York is a great start because change usually occurs on the coasts first.