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December 14, 2022

‘It’s like being in a warzone’ – A&E nurses open up about the emotional cost of working on the NHS frontline

Kate Kirk, University of Leicester

Nurses describe what it is like to work on the NHS frontline – and what the cost is to them.

The pandemic is stressing the nursing profession, which was already facing a labor shortage. Feverpitched/Getty Images

November 20, 2020

Amid a raging pandemic, the US faces a nursing shortage. Can we close the gap?

Rayna M. Letourneau, University of South Florida

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.

Demands on nurses for such things as electronic record keeping take time away from patients. They can also lead to resource deprivation trauma. Helen King/The Image Bank/Getty Images

June 23, 2020

The psychological trauma of nurses started long before coronavirus

Karen J. Foli, Purdue University

COVID-19 is traumatizing nurses. Yet nurses have suffered trauma for decades, often due to insufficient resources, and changes within the field have been slow.

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Laurie Cohen
Professor of Work and Organisation, University of Nottingham
Rayna M. Letourneau
Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
Karen J. Foli
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Purdue University
Kate Kirk
Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare, University of Leicester

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