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- The nursing shortage has a tangible impact on nurses’ working conditions. Growing workloads erode nurses’ ability to provide the care they feel their patients deserve. This inner tension can create a heavy psycholo-gical burden. In 2020, the CFNU published a report on nurses’ mental health.
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Today, perhaps like never before, the world is facing a healthcare crisis because of the triple whammy of nursing shortages, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the incipient effects of these on the mental health of clinicians.
- The Association between Mental Health Symptoms and Quality ...
The increasing level of mental health symptoms during...
- The Association between Mental Health Symptoms and Quality ...
The increased workload, lack of resources and personal protective equipment (PPE), staffing shortages and concern for personal and family safety, as well as moral distress, have significantly contributed to worse mental health outcomes for the health-care workforce.
The increasing level of mental health symptoms during COVID-19 and their dose–response relationship with nurses’ reports of quality and safety point to an urgent need for healthcare policies that better prevent, detect and treat mental ill health among nurses.
- Spotlight on burnout
- Mandatory overtime
- Solutions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the media has rightly focused attention on how burnout impacts healthcare workers. During this period of acute stress, the prevalence of burnout would be expected to rise. However, High levels of burnout, pre-pandemic, point to longstanding issues with nurses’ working conditions, where prolonged stress and heavy worklo...
Mandatory overtime is a newsworthy topic, especially in Quebec where nurses are legally obligated to accept doing overtime. Certainly, nurses in other provinces can decline overtime, but in practice, nurses feel intense pressure to put in extra hours when asked. For a nurse, declining overtime means leaving their patients with a sub-standard level ...
The nursing shortage is a complex problem that requires a multi-pronged approach. Hiring alone will not solve this crisis.
Feb 22, 2021 · Mental health supports are needed for nurses who are struggling right now, and for those who will be working in the profession post-pandemic, he said. 1 in 3 Ontario registered practical nurses...
May 7, 2024 · One factor affecting health-care access is a global nursing shortage. The increasing demand for nursing services in Canada far exceeds the current supply. Statistics Canada reported in...
Apr 15, 2024 · This study aimed to map the existing cohort evidence of nurses' mental health, as well as highlight future research directions, gaps, and resources; identify risk and protective factors using the social ecology model; and explore the consequences of mental health issues among nurses.
