University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. What Is Nurse Burnout? 1 What is the Number One Cause of Nurse Burnout?

Nursing Burnout

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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.,

Nursing Burnout

Daily Nurse

MAY 20, 2024

Nurses are the backbone of our nation’s healthcare system, tirelessly providing essential care to patients day and night. Yet, research suggests that many nurses are considering leaving the profession within the next two years. This type of self-scheduling is considered an ‘alternative workforce model.’

Self-Care

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A self-proclaimed millennial, Amanda Bettencourt , PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is serving a one-year term as president of the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Q: What are the most pressing issues for critical care nurses?

Self-Care

Nurse.com

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nurse bullying, or lateral violence, is a form of workplace violence defined as non-physical, aggressive, hostile, and/or harmful behavior between coworkers. While individual acts of nurse bullying can appear relatively harmless, they create a toxic environment that takes a toll on employees’ morale and can compromise patient care.

Self-Care

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Organization-wide interventions present the best option for addressing patient behavior and maintaining nurse retention. Takeaways: Many patients expect that the nurse who cares for them will be White and female, despite the growing diversity of the nursing workforce. Of 4 million nurses surveyed, 8.1%

Self-Care

Digital Doorway

APRIL 17, 2023

5) Shadow a nurse who does a type of nursing that you find fascinating. 6) Work with a career coach, life coach, or counselor who can walk you through a process of research, career development, and personal/professional self-discovery. Do deep self-knowledge and honesty assist in the process? It can certainly help.

Self-Care

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Nursing is a profession that offers both extraordinary rewards and profound challenges. The intensity of nursing education often stretches students to their limits, preparing them for the realities of patient care. With the ongoing decline in nurses working in rural areas (Wakefield et al., With 42.5% 2021; Hughes et al.,

Self-Care

Celayix

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In a recent survey by McKinsey & Company , 22% of nurses indicated that they may leave their position of providing direct patient care in the next year. The significant strain on nurses forces health systems and employers to deploy new strategies to provide a better workforce landscape.

Business

Relias

MARCH 31, 2023

What is a nurse leader? Nurses who have practiced for several years, gained solid experience in one or more care settings, improved their skills through continued education, and mentored other nurses are leaders — even if they do not have a job title specifically designated as a leadership role.

Leadership

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Understanding the effects of this condition and finding ways to combat them can improve your overall well-being and help you provide compassionate care. As a nurse, you provide care with empathy and sensitivity, and compassion fatigue may cause you to feel disconnected from the compassion you usually have. Self-regulation.

Self-Care

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

High stress levels can drain nurses’ energy, impede attention and critical thinking, and ultimately lead to declining patient care and outcomes. Fortunately, here’s where nature can help nurses. In fact, in a recent study published in BMC Nursing, resilience in nurses was found to reduce nurse burnout significantly.

Mental Health

American Nurse

MAY 2, 2024

When that foundation of trust becomes vulnerable, people gradually lose confidence in the quality of care provided, doubt decisions, and ask, “How long can I continue?” Consistently practicing the behaviors that foster trust of character provides stability, alignment, and care for the human experience during times of change and uncertainty.

Mental Health

Scrubs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Working as a nurse manager isn’t the same as working in other management positions. Not having enough nurses on the floor can lead to fatigue, burnout, poor patient outcomes, and even deadly medical errors. To make the situation even more dire, the country is also preparing for a looming nursing shortage.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

Each of the nursing teams you’ll read about on the following pages found opportunities to collaborate, strategize, and implement successful projects and programs with their interprofessional teammates to enhance patient care and improve outcomes, engage nurses, and ensure a healthy work environment for everyone.

Mental Health