News-Medical.Net December 6, 2022
Those on the front line of the Covid pandemic need mental health support to help them recover from, or manage, the stress and trauma they faced – according to University of East Anglia research.
A new report published today investigates the impact of the pandemic on nurses working in care homes.
It shows how care home nurses were unprepared for the situation they found themselves in, and that this impacted their mental health and wellbeing.
The research team say that these frontline workers need a mental health and wellbeing strategy to help promote recovery from the symptoms of trauma and moral distress that they faced during the pandemic.
Our work shows that care home nurses were completely unprepared for...