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  2. Nurses: Overworked and Understaffed on the Front Lines

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    Those can happen when a nurse is exhausted or not given the authority to make critical decisions. A 2011 survey taken by about 95,000 nurses found that 36 percent of nurses in hospitals, ...

  3. What's Causing the American Nursing Shortage? - Healthline

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    The takeaway. The United States nursing shortage is driven by many factors, including an increased need for care, large numbers of the workforce reaching retirement age, and recent healthcare ...

  4. Massachusetts needs a lot more nurses. Why that is, and how ...

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    While efforts are underway to boost enrollment in nursing programs, Thomas said retaining experienced nurses that are feeling exhausted, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, is equally ...

  5. 11 Elderly End-of-Life Symptoms: Timeline and Providing Support

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    End-of-life symptoms. 1. Appetite and digestive changes. As one nears the end of life, metabolism and digestion gradually slow down. Fewer calories are needed, so loss of appetite and decreased ...

  6. Exhausted Nurse's Photo Shows Emotional Toll of Job - WebMD

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    Kendra McMillan, a registered nurse and senior policy advisor for the ANA, says she remembers working back-to-back 12-hour shifts and being physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausted. “You ...

  7. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

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    Due to the stress from the Coronavirus many nurses are facing compassion fatigue and burnout. Part of burnout is due to a nursing shortage, there are more patients than nurses are used to taking care of at once. Increasing workload has made longer shifts for most nurses, lack of enthusiasm, and many have become emotionally drained.

  8. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". [1] Nurses practice in many specialties with ...

  9. Emotional exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Emotional exhaustion is symptom of burnout, [1] a chronic state of physical and emotional depletion that results from excessive work or personal demands, or continuous stress. [2] It describes a feeling of being emotionally overextended and exhausted by one's work. It is manifested by both physical fatigue and a sense of feeling psychologically ...