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Nurses Take Top Spot for Honesty and Ethics in Gallup Poll

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Nurses continued to care for patients with COVID-19 and address the fears that come with the diagnosis. The pandemic also exacerbated the challenges nurses already faced before COVID-19 and created new ones. Understaffed and unsafe work environments make it impossible for nurses to do the work they signed up to do.

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Critical Care Association President Wants Nurses to be Heard

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Fundamentally, though, what nursing looked like before the pandemic and what nursing care looks like now inside the ICU are basically the same. Q: Would you say nurse burnout is different for critical care nurses than other specialties? A: Nurse burnout is driven by different things in critical care nursing.

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Calls for Change Resonate at The Nurses’ March in Washington

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A National Nurses United survey released in April found that 69% of hospital nurses surveyed said staffing has become worse recently, and 64.5% At The Nurses’ March, which was co-sponsored by Nurse.com, Vinsant said the high patient-nurse ratios are leading to nurse burnout and broken dreams.

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Does Your CNO Champion Solid Nurse Recognition Programs?

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Researchers have found that a healthy work environment, along with finding meaning and joy in one’s work, is fundamental to decreasing nurse burnout and traumatic stress and preventing nurses from leaving their jobs.