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The COVID pandemic has exacerbated staff shortages in health care. We need to think about how we can better retain staff in this sector.
Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice.
Though little studied, exhaustion among people with autism has become its own pandemic.
Mental health nurse Tessa Moriarty explains how the brisk release of sea-swimming helps her manage symptoms of grief post-pandemic burnout.
Burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’ can compromise patient safety and signal health worker exhaustion. And they are a ticking time bomb for health care.
I loved my job tending to the sick. I’ve just had it with a system that compromises my patients’ safety — and my own.
Burnout among health-care workers has implications for the whole workforce, and patients too.
Inside the Luminis Health Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md., there are more covid-19 patients than at any other point in the pandemic. Doctors, nurses and hospital administrators are all being pushed to the brink.
Healthcare workers treating patients during the COVID-19 pandemic are suffering burnout, bullying and chronic understaffing that has become so severe, experts fear they could make catastrophic errors.
Statistics show that stress and burnout are affecting more women than men en masse. Why – and what happens next?
While taking time off of work isn't an option for everyone, prioritizing our wellbeing over personal productivity is a worthwhile endeavor. If we don't take care of ourselves, we can't take care of other things — including our jobs.
An internal review into why Canberra's doctors failed key exams so often finds they were being overworked, with roster audits determining there have been several legal breaches.
The WHO has redefined burnout as a syndrome linked to chronic work stress. There’s a difference between a busy workload and something more serious, writes Zaria Gorvett.
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Katie Duke became Instagram famous during the pandemic. Her nursing career may never recover.
The latest annual survey of Australia's doctors in training reveals an increase in trainee workloads, and a rise in the number of trainees considering a future outside of medicine.
The end of medical ideology.
The fallout from the pandemic-fuelled mental health epidemic on the people tasked with helping the rest of us is widespread, and growing
Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.
A senior doctor warns Australians will soon no longer be able to assume that if they get sick there'll be an ambulance, hospital bed or doctor to take care of them.
About 50% of medical professionals were dealing with burnout before COVID-19, writes Dr. Jessi Gold. The pandemic has made it exponentially worse.
When we are overworked or bored, we may need to zoom into work instead of zoning out.
Across the country nurses are burnt out, exhausted and looking for new jobs, saying COVID-19 has only exacerbated workload pressures and staffing issues that existed long before the pandemic. Here's a look at the state of the workforce.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.
A growing number of programs aim to help doctors, nurses and medical students who are struggling with mental health issues during the pandemic.
As the first wave of patients subsides, many health-care workers are struggling with the death and devastation they saw close up and — perhaps most difficult — with their own inability to save more people’s lives.
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