Tag: burnout

Caring for the Nurse Retreat’s average satisfaction score is 4.89 on a 5-point scale and nurses report significant improvements in self-care and stress management, chief nursing officer says. A half-day retreat that takes frontline nurses off the floor of UAMS Health...

At the start of every shift, associate nurse unit manager Sue Thompson tries to think of a creative way to lift morale. Each week she travels from her farm in Barjarg in Victoria’s northeast to a major metropolitan hospital to work...

As a sleep researcher and nursing instructor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Alyson Hanish saw plenty of colleagues and students burn out during the pandemic. So when she saw an invite from the Biden administration, she seized the grant...

It’s helpful to keep the distinction between burnout and stress clear so as not to burden individuals with responsibility for fixing workplace issues that require management attention, writes Dr Karen Morley. Even before the pandemic, burnout was said to be reaching...

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the health system to address healthcare worker resiliency and mental health. Ochsner Health has been awarded a $2.9 million federal grant to help support the New Orleans-based health system’s multifaceted workforce well-being and retention efforts. At...

Dr. R. John Sawyer juggles a lot. He is a father of two and a neuropsychologist at Ochsner Health. He has seen patients with COVID-19 struggle — and patients without the virus put their appointments on hold. He has seen heavy...

Pharmacy workloads, corporate demands, and customer have stretched an already thin pharmacy behavior workforce to the breaking point. Breaks were nonexistent. I would have to try to use the bathroom at the most convenient time to step away from the pharmacy....