Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Qventus’ website.
During Nurses Week, the medical community formally acknowledges and celebrates the people that patients thank every day. Nurses are among our “everyday heroes.” They are tireless caretakers, helping us through times of great joy and of immense fear.
But our current system is wearing down our nurses, despite their personal motivation. Their everyday heroics have as much to do as overcoming administrative challenges and senseless process bottlenecks as caring for our ill. One-third of U.S. nurses report emotional exhaustion scores that indicate high burnout, stress, anxiety, emotional detachments and chronic fatigue. Burnout impacts patient care, cascades to other providers, and causes nurses to leave the profession. Click here to continue >>
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