Nurse fatigue: A shared responsibility
RNs and employers can work together to promote healthy sleep. GETTING ADEQUATE REST is important for everyone, especially when fewer daylight hours in the…
Burnout/Fatigue
Nurse perception of alarm fatigue impacts compliance with alarm management
Education can help nursing staff gain control and improve patient safety. Takeaways: A standardized unit-based education program increases nurse awareness of clinical alarm fatigue.…
Team assist: Manage nurse burnout and improve care quality
Nursing teamwork addresses admission, discharge, and transfer workloads. Takeaways: Multiple simultaneous admissions, discharges, and transfers can create complexity and heavy workloads in acute-care facilities.…
Managing stress in health care with meditation: Got a minute?
Providing bedside care is stressful, and finding ways to reduce that stress can be difficult in a sometimes chaotic and unpredictable environment. Research shows…
Recover energy, find balance, and reduce stress
By Chris Jordan, MS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ACSM EP-C/APT An axiom of the healthcare world is that the better care health providers give to themselves,…
It’s alarming – Nurse Fatigue
Have you become desensitized to alarms? I stepped onto an elevator with three other people, their eyes glued to their phones. Just as the…
Fighting the effects of nurse fatigue
Have you ever gotten home from a shift and forgotten the journey from the hospital to your house? Are you ever irritable and cranky, but…
Reducing stress to promote clinician well-being
When the stakes are high, as they generally are in health care, it follows that the stress levels of RNs and other clinicians also are high.…
Let’s work together to solve long hours and nurse fatigue
NURSE FATIGUE may seem inevitable in many healthcare environments, with a portion of registered nurses (RNs) consistently working past their normal shifts—jeopardizing their own health and potentially crossing…
Compassion fatigue: Are you at risk?
For many of us, nursing isn’t just what we do; it’s who we are. Most of us became nurses because we care about people…
Combating change fatigue in today’s healthcare environment
Those who work in the healthcare industry are well aware of its constantly changing landscape. Healthcare institutions are challenged to balance the provision of…
Do you hear what I hear? Combating alarm fatigue
As you enter your unit to begin your shift, a cacophony of alarms from multiple devices greets you. The cacophony continues throughout your entire…
Nurse fatigue: A shared responsibility
RNs and employers can work together to promote healthy sleep. GETTING ADEQUATE REST is important for everyone, especially when fewer daylight hours…
Nurse perception of alarm fatigue impacts compliance with alarm management
Education can help nursing staff gain control and improve patient safety. Takeaways: A standardized unit-based education program increases nurse awareness of clinical…
Team assist: Manage nurse burnout and improve care quality
Nursing teamwork addresses admission, discharge, and transfer workloads. Takeaways: Multiple simultaneous admissions, discharges, and transfers can create complexity and heavy workloads in…
Managing stress in health care with meditation: Got a minute?
Providing bedside care is stressful, and finding ways to reduce that stress can be difficult in a sometimes chaotic and unpredictable environment.…
Recover energy, find balance, and reduce stress
By Chris Jordan, MS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ACSM EP-C/APT An axiom of the healthcare world is that the better care health providers give…
It’s alarming – Nurse Fatigue
Have you become desensitized to alarms? I stepped onto an elevator with three other people, their eyes glued to their phones. Just…
Fighting the effects of nurse fatigue
Have you ever gotten home from a shift and forgotten the journey from the hospital to your house? Are you ever irritable and…
Reducing stress to promote clinician well-being
When the stakes are high, as they generally are in health care, it follows that the stress levels of RNs and other clinicians also…
Let’s work together to solve long hours and nurse fatigue
NURSE FATIGUE may seem inevitable in many healthcare environments, with a portion of registered nurses (RNs) consistently working past their normal shifts—jeopardizing their own health…
Compassion fatigue: Are you at risk?
For many of us, nursing isn’t just what we do; it’s who we are. Most of us became nurses because we care…
Combating change fatigue in today’s healthcare environment
Those who work in the healthcare industry are well aware of its constantly changing landscape. Healthcare institutions are challenged to balance the…
Do you hear what I hear? Combating alarm fatigue
As you enter your unit to begin your shift, a cacophony of alarms from multiple devices greets you. The cacophony continues throughout…