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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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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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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The Retirement Drain The population surge from the baby boomer generation has led not only to a greater number of aging patients but also means that a large portion of the nursing workforce is heading toward retirement – which makes the nurse shortage even more severe.

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Moving Forward: How Nurses Can Recover From Pandemic PTSD

Minority Nurse

Many nurses were frontline workers during the height of the pandemic and faced most of the stress of caring for infected patients amid staff shortages and the risk of getting infected. In a 2022 study , around 50% of nonphysician healthcare workers reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

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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., 2011; Forsyth et al., 2021; Romppanen et al.,

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Nurses Take Top Spot for Honesty and Ethics in Gallup Poll

Nurse.com

The results of the 2022 Gallup poll on honesty and ethics are in, and nurses are once again at the top of the list! Nurses have earned this honor 21 years in a row. In the poll, 79% of Americans who participated in the survey rated nurse honesty and ethics as very high or high. Ethical practice isn’t just lip service.

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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.