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A new paper in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sleep Research details how nurses who also are parents might be more susceptible than other groups to daily stress aggravated by poor sleep. The consequences of the sleep-stressor link in nurses with children may affect their caregiving at home and on the job, where nurses represent the …
Caregivers should look forward to how bots can help support them while knowing they still play the most important role of all: and that’s providing the personal, human touch that can’t be replicated by technology. Imagine being admitted into a long-term healthcare center, only to find out that it was being partly run by robots? …
Current burnout rates and physician dissatisfaction levels are nearing an all-time high; with the ever-increasing demands of a pandemic-torn healthcare system, a work-life balance is not easy to achieve within this profession. Per recent research, physicians work an average of 51.4 hours a week while nearly a quarter works between 61 and 80 hours a …
Nurses are the selfless helpers and caregivers of those in need by the fundamental nature of their profession. Who takes care of these hard working lifelines? A recent national study has revealed unsettling findings: Nurses, regardless of gender, are at a significantly increased risk of suicide than the rest of the general population. In the …
In a recent Medscape poll 1 in 6 doctors say that they make diagnostic errors of some sort every day, and some jokingly suggest that is only because the other 5 are lying, and others joking suggest they don’t make them every day because of the loophole that they don’t work weekends. However, joking aside, …