Medical Xpress June 15, 2022
During the most acute periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses faced record levels of stress and burnout. As pandemic stress on hospitals and nursing homes now recedes, will nurse burnout recede as well? Many policymakers assume so. However, Penn School of Nursing’s Rachel French, Karen Lasater, and colleagues find that high rates of burnout and intent to leave existed before the first COVID-19 patients ever entered U.S. hospitals and nursing homes.
Our analysis of survey data collected December 2019 through February 2020 from 33,462 registered nurses (RNs) in New York and Illinois revealed that more than 40% of RNs reported high burnout. As we reported recently in the Journal of Nursing Regulation, one in four were also dissatisfied with their...
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