As a little girl, Eleanor Pattison dreamt of becoming a nurse. “I’m a caring person and I enjoy looking after my family and ...

Patients would arrive typically short of breath and often fearful for their lives. For days or weeks, their only companions were nurses and the faces of loved ones on a screen. Some said their ...

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 ...

Additionally, fewer nurses in our sample (25%) had high emotional exhaustion scores, compared with 43% of Aiken's sample. Emotional Exhaustion.

This is a prime example of mental exhaustion. They hear things that no one should hear and leave each shift mentally and physically tired.

A homeless psychiatric patient turned violent at San Francisco General Hospital, attacking three nurses because he did not want to be discharged. One nurse, Rex Spray, was so badly injured that he ...

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned that many of its members are experiencing exhaustion, burnout and stress, alongside compromised patient care, due to staff shortages.

According to Indeed’s Global Work Wellbeing Report 2024, there are three leading factors that help people feel energized at work. Here's how to implement them.

A CRYING nurse faces a lifetime in jail for stabbing her husband to death as he slept beside her. Rebecca Searing, 52, was today convicted of murdering her husband Paul, 57, after writing ” i… ...

Nurses experience a range of traumas in their everyday routine, according to Archibald, and the effects of those mental wounds can start to alter an individual’s world view — causing a nurse ...

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 ...

Although no concrete changes were made as a result of this study, nurses and administrators have a heightened awareness of issues around emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction of nurses.