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Reflecting on Life as an ICU Nurse During COVID-19: Mental Health

The Gypsy Nurse

Perspectives from former COVID ICU Nurses Amanda, RN “I would not have become a nurse if I knew a global pandemic was in the future ,” Amanda, an ER and ICU nurse, says. Amanda has been a nurse for four years and enjoyed her work pre-pandemic. Amanda describes her mental health as good before COVID.

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Collaboration: The key to patient care success

American Nurse

Despite the exceedingly high turnover rate of ICU nurses nationwide, Raritan Bay Medical Center’s ICU had an RN turnover rate of 3% in the third quarter of 2022. In the last quarter of 2022, and year to date in 2023, we have a 0% nurse turnover rate. The program, Grow Your Mental Health, focuses on mindful breathing.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Cara Lunsford

Minority Nurse

She ’ s also the host of Nurse.com ’ s NurseDot Podcast and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting a variety of voices within the nursing industry while also speaking to her personal experiences as an RN and founder of HOLLIBLU, a social networking app exclusively for nurses (acquired by Nurse.com in 2022).

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Celebrate National Nurses Week — and Read Our Nurse Salary and Job Satisfaction Report

Relias

Attending to nurses’ needs helps ensure that they stay in their jobs, and it helps bring new nurses into the profession. This year, our survey went beyond nurse salary and job satisfaction. We asked about nurses’ experiences with workplace violence and how their work life affects their mental health and wellness.

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The World Is On Edge…

Life of a Nurse

The stress of workload, moral distress, and working conditions translated into a vulnerable health care sector; nurses in significant numbers changing their practice from acute and long term care to remote work, public health, and leaving the profession. A nursing faculty shortage capping pre-licensure admission capacity.

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Nurse.com and HOLLIBLU Join Together To Grow Nurse Community

Nurse.com

Growing nurse support. According to our 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report , 29% of nurses (across all licenses) are considering leaving the profession, compared to only 11% in our 2020 survey. This percentage can be attributed to different factors, including staffing concerns and nurse burnout.

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Minimizing Medical Burnout: Dr Sarah M I Cartwright

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

As a program, we have successfully taken advanced practice nurses from students to practitioners specializing in family practice and psychiatric mental health. They have found a pleasant balance between their work life and mental health. How do you think that might help people? Can you explain?