Through a national survey, researchers identified prevalent work overload, burnout, and intent to leave health care professions among nurses, clinical staff, and non-clinical staff, including housekeeping, administrative staff, lab technicians, and food service workers.
ICU clinicians often face dilemma: compassion or efficiency. Beth Israel study looks at key factors.
The health care system is hemorrhaging medical lab workers, in part because of COVID-19 infections and also because of burnout, low wages and better opportunities elsewhere.
Research shows that people with more flow in their lives had a higher sense of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists are beginning to explore what happens in the brain during flow.
Long-term solutions to the nursing shortage call for changes that value nurses and offer them a safe place to work.
Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.
Nearly 90% of emergency service staff have experienced stress, low mood and poor mental health.
Daily recovery can not only relieve burnout – it may also prevent it in the first place.
Physician burnout is costing the U.S. health care system an estimated $4.6 billion annually, according to new research from an international team led by a Harvard Business School researcher.
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