Avoiding Burnout With An Annual Vacation
As a travel healthcare professional, you spend your days (or nights!) tirelessly caring for patients across the country, supporting facilities in need. This important work can often be exhausting and thankless, leading to potential burnout. One way that you can avoid burnout is to take time away from work to relax and recharge, focusing on yourself and your relationships. If you can pair your vacation with a chance to get to know other healthcare professionals, you can build friendships and spend time with other people who understand exactly what you’re going through. Club CoreMed is an annual all-inclusive trip for…
Self-Care for Nurses: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Well-Being
Nursing is one of the most demanding and rewarding professions, but it can also be incredibly stressful and emotionally taxing. Long hours, high patient volumes, difficult working conditions, and the emotional toll of caring for others can lead to nurse burnout—a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. Nurse burnout not only affects job performance but also has a significant impact on personal well-being. Preventing burnout and prioritizing self-care is essential for maintaining both health and happiness throughout a nursing career. In this article, we explore practical ways nurses can incorporate self-care strategies into their routines to prevent burnout and…
Navigating Nurse Burnout: Signs, Prevention, and Recovery
Medical Edge Recruitment provided this article. Written by: Taylor Dupont, Marketing Specialist, Medical Edge Recruitment Nursing is a profession that often comes with immense emotional and physical demands. However, the relentless pace of work, coupled with high patient expectations and emotional strain, can lead to a phenomenon known as nurse burnout. Understanding the signs of nurse burnout, along with effective strategies for prevention and recovery, is crucial for nurses to maintain their well-being and continue providing quality care. Understanding Nurse Burnout Burnout is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. It can affect nurses at any…
Surviving Nursing Burnout
Burnout is undeniable and, in nursing, endemic. Defined as the “physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress,” many elements of nursing are responsible: long hours, emotional exhaustion, trauma, and many say Covid. However, nursing burnout has been a factor long before Covid. Understaffing, under-appreciation, inadequate remuneration, compassion fatigue, and poor work-life balance have been the standard work environment for nurses long before Florence. What makes today different is the stress and chaos that came with Covid brought us all to burnout at the same time. Burnout roots in and grows without a person even realizing it. It…
Finding Balance: Healthcare Workers’ Guide to Preventing Burnout and Maintaining Well-Being
Advantage Medical Professionals provided this article. Burnout may feel like just a buzzword, given the heightened awareness over the last few years, but it’s certainly not a new concept. In 1997, the Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual defined burnout as “a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of low personal accomplishment that leads to decreased effectiveness at work.”1 The same study also indicated that “burnout seems to occur mainly in professions involving interaction with people, such as physicians, nurses, social workers, and teachers.” Of course, this finding comes as no surprise for anyone who’s worked in a bedside healthcare setting. The best…
Battling Burnout: Take Time to Care for Yourself
Amare Medical Network provided this article. By Jaclyn Neilly, BSN, BA, RN, Director of Clinical ServicesatAmare Medical Network Burnout almost feels like lip service at this point, right? We are mucking through the day, shift after shift, just getting by. Shells of our former selves for the most part. Some of us have left the bedside or the profession altogether in hopes of gaining some small sense of humanity back. Some way to feel connected again, grounded. For years nurses have been facing increasing demands in their profession. These demands came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic in a…
Exhausted to Extraordinary in 90 Days: The Breakthrough Burnout Event
Are you beyond resentful at everyone and everything, feeling stuck and unsure about what to do to get back to yourself? Are you living in dread and fear and want to feel calm, confident, and in control? Don’t know how to reframe negative thoughts or turn your mind off to be present with your family and friends? Join burnout expert Dr. Sharon Grossman in a FREE live workshop to learn the three simple steps you need to go from being enslaved to your job to designing your life on purpose so you can feel lighter, more in control, and more…
Strategies for Dealing with Travel Nurse Burnout
Fusion Medical Staffing provided this article. Author, Megan Bebout Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad day at work. As the backbone of the healthcare system, registered nurses (RNs) have seen some serious stuff, and to put it lightly, they’re tired. Exhausted. Travel nurses aren’t just there to treat illnesses or injuries. These caregivers also comfort, educate, and advocate for their patients and their families, in addition to a bunch of other tasks. Plus, most RNs are working long shifts away from their homes, separated from their own friends and families, so not only do they struggle with patient care, but they also deal…
Not Again! What To Do About Healthcare Burnout?
Aequor Healthcare provided this article. Burnout is a term that gets thrown around so much in healthcare that you’re probably going to stop reading right now. Please give me a few more sentences before you decide to stop. Yes, you know what it means, you probably have it, and you’ve heard all the trite tips and strategies for overcoming burnout over and over. What more can be said? How about this: It’s not your fault. It’s not a problem with your character or fortitude. It’s not the fault of your place of employment or a lack of planning and poor…
Overcoming Travel Nurse Burnout – 5 Lessons I Learned On the Road
“BEEP. BEEP.” 0530, and my alarm was ringing off. After I had pressed snooze for long enough to make myself late, I lazily pulled myself out of bed, put my scrubs on, grabbed my lunch, and headed out the door. I dreaded the commute to the hospital, and even worse – I had 12+ hours of work anxiety to look forward to. I have now been a nurse for five years, and I absolutely love it. I love working three days a week, caring for others, and I still enjoy the adrenaline rush of someone “tanking.” I can’t imagine doing…