Minority Nurse

MAY 1, 2025

Many nurses start their day in a rush, getting morning coffee right after waking up and driving to work thinking about their day ahead. Sometimes, pausing momentarily and reciting a mantra out loud isn’t a first thought because life feels too busy. Thankfully, there is no right or wrong way to recite affirmations.

Self-Care

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re busy and would instead not pick up a paintbrush, find guided journals that provide prompts. Nurses stuck in a negative rut can look for gratitude journals to reflect on what they enjoy or are grateful for. Use this method to document life events, advice, or quotes that inspire you.

Promotion

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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. Earn your advanced nursing degree while keeping your work and life in balance.

Nurse Shortage

Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mark your calendars for October 10, 2024—World Mental Health Day is here! This year’s theme, “It’s Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace,” is a call to action that resonates deeply, especially within the nursing community. Our interview follows, edited for length and clarity.

Mental Health

Daily Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

They’re natural, cuddly stress relievers that can improve cardiovascular health and decrease loneliness. That’s why it can be an excellent idea for nurses to adopt a pet of their own, especially if they’re experiencing anxiety, depression, or another mental health issue. The post Struggling With Your Mental Health?

Mental Health

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It can lead to a lack of empathy, a sense of dread as they head into work, and extra stress that could impact their physical and mental well-being. Countless factors contribute to nurse burnout, from a busy schedule to difficult patients and demanding daily tasks.

Nursing Burnout

Nurse.com

MARCH 2, 2023

In this study, when more nurses took sick leave, it produced larger workloads for the remaining staff, creating a cycle of excessive working and burnout. Scenarios like these are all too familiar in nursing, and enforcing limits can be a means to disrupt this cycle and reduce the risk of burnout.

Mental Health

The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A helping profession can also put nurses and other helping professionals, like doctors and mental health professionals, under a lot of stress because of the responsibility placed upon them. Take a Mental Health Day If you feel nurse burnout creeping up or are particularly stressed out, it may be time to take a break.

Self-Care

Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This ease of care ensures that nurses enjoy having a green companion in their living space without adding significant demands to their busy schedules. They’re also low-maintenance, requiring only occasional waterings — around every 10-14 days, but can go as long as three weeks between waterings.

Promotion

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Recommendations that emerged from the ANA MA included, to advocate for legislation to address safety and firearm access, to increase funding allocated towards mental health services, gun violence, and prevention research including research on gun violence against health care workers and in health care settings.

Retirement

Minority Nurse

JUNE 6, 2024

As a result, more nurses felt relaxed, peaceful, and ready to complete their assignments. How Creating Art Helps Mental Health Art is a great way to decrease stress. When we’re busy in our careers, it’s easy to forget that we deserve to have fun and let loose once in a while.

Self-Care

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

APRIL 30, 2024

She is a highly dedicated nursing professional with a passion for advanced education, professional development, data analytics, and quality and outcome assessment, with a clinical focus in PeriAnesthesia nursing. I know that you are a very busy person. They have found a pleasant balance between their work life and mental health.

Mental Health

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A recent paper in Science Advances reveals the value of nature experience for mental health. Nurses are no strangers to long shifts and hectic work environments where the stakes can often be life or death. Stress and Burnout on the Rise Mental health issues among nurses are increasingly common.

Mental Health

American Nurse

MAY 2, 2024

The evidence of physical depletion, burnout, moral suffering, compassion fatigue, degraded mental health, and suicide among clinicians is sobering. Application of the 3Cs outside of healthcare has demonstrated that the power of human connection made possible through trust drives business performance and manages change.

Mental Health

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

They then developed opportunities for improvement based on vital feedback from the nurses who would be directly affected. All of us at American Nurse Journal extend our gratitude to every team that submitted an application. You’re all incredibly busy professionals who made the effort to tell us about the critical work you do.

Mental Health

Celayix

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Staff shortages can harm businesses and industries, leading to project delays and increased workload for existing employees. The unemployment rate continued to improve throughout 2021 and early 2022 as the economy began to recover and businesses started re-hiring workers. The unemployment rate currently is at 5.8%

Retirement

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Many nurses with busy careers know that they need a vacation , but planning one can be stressful if you’re considering a destination, how to get there, and what to do once you’re there. Organizing a trip doesn’t have to be overwhelming.

Business