Nurses’ work is often demanding and exhausting. Nurses face physical, mental, emotional, moral, and ethical challenges everyday. These challenges can poorly affect nurses’ health and well-being, resulting in a burnt out workforce and decreased quality of care.
Nurses’ health and well-being must be supported so they can effectively care for patients, advance health equity, and improve the health of the nation. In this episode, we hear from frontline nurses and other health experts on how nurses are impacted when they experience challenges like burnout, racism, or are reluctant to report bad situations; and focus on what strategies should be taken to better support nurses and whose responsibility it is to do so.
In this episode, we hear from:
For more information on this topic, we encourage you to read The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. You can access the full report here.
The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies, recommendations, and stances of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
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