For days or weeks, their only companions were nurses and the faces of loved ones on a screen. Some said their final goodbyes that way. Nurses Speak Out: Fear, Exhaustion, Patients Dying Alone ...

The heart of healthcare is stressed. With longer shifts, staffing shortages and healthcare changes taxing our nurses, it's no surprise that up to 80 percent report ;suffering compassion fatigue at ...

-- 43 percent of hospital nurses scored high on a "burnout inventory" measuring emotional exhaustion. -- 53 percent had experienced "ward rage" in the form of verbal abuse from patients. Advertisement ...

“A lot of nurses cry alone. ... That, said Archibald, could lead health-care workers to experience secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue.

Doctors, nurses battle compassion fatigue INDIANAPOLIS, April 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. doctor cautions that medical professionals who see their patients die are vulnerable to compassion fatigue.

Virginia nurses Tuesday shared in vulnerable detail how they are emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted as they continue to serve on the front lines of the pandemic as the Delta variant ...

I watched nurses and doctors rush to the bedside as a patient coded, working tirelessly to keep them with us. I have cried from overwhelming sadness, exhaustion and stress. I was also afraid.

Incessant alarms from cardiac monitors, patient call buttons and IVs may lead nurses to tune out noise in a phenomenon called "alarm fatigue." This experience can be life-threatening — the Joint ...