Provide employee respite care, watch staff turnover rates drop
By
Michelle Seitzer
Dec 06, 2011
Just a year and a half later and I was done. Even for two weeks after the fact, I was numb – completely drained of emotion, lethargic, and avoiding interaction with others. Burnout.
Fighting burnout? The McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo offers fresh tips on June 17
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 03, 2021
The virtual doors to the free online event will open at 10:30 a.m. ET, providing attendees with the chance to network with peers and visit the online exhibition hall featuring products and services from...
Learn how to fight burnout at the McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo in 1 week
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 11, 2021
The chief nursing officer of Vocera Communications will share solutions that can remove hassles, restore human connections and increase safety and health justice for residents, families and frontline workers...
Managers need better understanding of nurses’ stress, burnout, study shows
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Oct 31, 2017
Healthcare managers have a “big role” when it comes to the health and stress levels of the nurses they employ, according to the authors of a new study on stress in nursing. In particular, they...
HHS pledges $103 million for worker burnout, shortages
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 24, 2022
The Biden administration is supplying $103 million in grants to help curb healthcare worker burnout and staffing shortages, the White House announced Friday.
Caring for the carers: Reducing turnover among long-term care leaders
By
Marleah Keuler-Grahek
Sep 02, 2021
Long-term care organizations need to act purposefully to recruit and retain quality frontline leaders. While the lack of caregivers and nurses is a well-known problem, an increasing number of individuals...
Caregiver burnout not harming patient care, study shows
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 05, 2024
With care worker weariness impossible to ignore in the long-term care sector, researchers have increasingly tried to learn whether burnout has led to lower care quality in nursing homes.
Caregiving in California
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 18, 2012
For all of the holiday joy in many of our lives, if there’s a time of year people feel burned out, it’s probably about now.
Study isolates nursing home leaders’ unique COVID-era stressors
By
Joe Bush
Nov 10, 2022
Excessive feelings of guilt, extra infection control precautions, unprecedented long work hours and personal healthcare sacrifices were common among nursing home leaders during the height of the pandemic,...
If not us, then who?
By
Julie Thorson
Oct 12, 2022
I can’t remember the date. I don’t remember what was happening at the time. What regulation changed, who tested positive, what family was upset, what team member was infuriated, or what system had...