The US has a growing demand for nurses. Yet nursing schools are turning away many qualified candidates.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many nurses feeling burned out, and its long-term effects on the profession are unknown.
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Exhausted and demoralized nurses are leaving the profession at alarming rates as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.
Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, an Ottawa family doctor who hosted several pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics, speaks in Ottawa in August 2021 during JabaPalooza, a rally calling on Ontario to adopt a provincial COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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The decisions of medical health-care professionals like doctors and nurse practitioners are more legally significant than ever before since they are determining vaccination exemptions.
Many nurses are physically and emotionally exhausted from the toll of COVID-19.
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Rates of burnout have increased alarmingly among health-care workers during the pandemic. Unless the system provides more support to its already depleted workforce, staff shortages may get worse.
Most nurses spoke of having to contend with family members who assumed patients should rest as much as possible.
The high prevalence of insomnia symptoms among health care workers has concerning implications for our health care system.
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While no Australian nurses died in service on the Western Front, the horror of what they saw and treated on the front lines caused tremendous suffering and pain.
The giant leap in the number of people accessing HIV treatment would not have been possible without task shifting from medical doctors to less-specialised cadres such as nurses and midwives.
The pandemic is stressing the nursing profession, which was already facing a labor shortage.
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Nurses are uniquely at risk of COVID-19, and are affected by many of the health inequalities that the pandemic has exposed. But no one is listening to them.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne