Healthcare DIVE April 7, 2021
Dive Brief:
- More than 60% of frontline healthcare workers say the pandemic has negatively impacted their mental health, according to a national survey published Tuesday from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post.
- About 13% of those surveyed reported accessing mental health services or medications while 18% said they needed such services but didn’t get them. Those who didn’t get help cited being too busy or unable to get time off work, feeling afraid or embarrassed or not being able to afford it.
- Another recent survey from the American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment found that nearly 80% of registered nurses said the pandemic strained staffing in their unit to “unsafe levels.”
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