‘I just can’t do it anymore’: Nurse burnout is at a breaking point

During the pandemic, intense levels of stress and burnout have driven nurses away from the profession, leading experts to push for new programs and efforts to reduce burnout and improve working conditions, Bradford Pearson writes for the New York Times.

Burnout continues to push nurses away from the field

“Burnout has always been a part of nursing,” Pearson writes, “an effect of long working hours in physically and often emotionally taxing environments.”

While the pandemic exacerbated some of the already existing problems with burnout, it also added new ones, including staffing shortages, growing violence against healthcare workers, and an increase in deaths from COVID-19.

According to a study from the American Nurses Foundation released...