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Depression is No Joke. How Nurses Can Use Laughter to Defeat Stress

Minority Nurse

Depression can often go together with burnout, according to a 2021 study , so nurses who feel burned out can also feel tired, lethargic, and not in the mood for anything. Nurses are also more likely to experience depression with burnout when faced with demanding work situations with high stress.

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Future-Proofing Healthcare

Penn Nursing

As an ER nurse, Jennifer Gil , MSN, RN saw the return of plenty of patients who had made little progress. She wondered, too, about the connection between crowded ERs and nursesburnout. Many didn’t have the “resources to connect to preventative care or mental health services,” Gil says.

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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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Small Patients, Big Discoveries

Penn Nursing

Nurses Help NursingBurnout” is an omnipresent word in nursing today. Several researchers, clinicians, and faculty at Penn Nursing are tackling it head-on, hoping to help reverse attrition trends and improve the quality of work life, especially in pediatrics.

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Reimagining Maternal Care: Building a System of Care for Mothers, Babies, and Nurses

Minority Nurse

maternal deaths per 100,000 live births as of 2021 (CDC). Nearly 40% of mothers do not attend their postpartum check-ups, often due to logistical challenges, lack of support, or the misconception that the visits aren’t necessary (ACOG, 2021). For nurses, the challenge is equally significant.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The Impact of the Nursing Shortage Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses 12 The nursing shortage of skilled RNs entering and remaining in the workforce affects patient care and other members of the healthcare team. 13 Another study conducted in California correlated an 8.9%

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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., 2021; Faller et al., 2021; Romppanen et al.,