As frontline nurses continue to care for the growing number of COVID-19 patients, enact strategies to reduce their risk of burning out.
Monday, December 28, 2020

"Today's pandemic has the power to make or break a department and good leaders have potential to ensure their team comes out of this stronger than ever,' says Renee Cecil, DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN, SANE, NREMT, senior consultant for Philips Healthcare Transformation Services.

In this week's feature story, we share three strategies leadership can use to reduce the risk of burnout among frontline nurses.

Also in this issue:
 

3 Strategies for Combating Nurse Burnout During and After the Pandemic
As frontline nurses continue to care for the growing number of COVID-19 patients, enact strategies to reduce their risk of burning out.
 
 
Adopt 3-Part Commitment Model for Patient Safety
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation is seeking to reduce preventable patient deaths to zero by 2030.
Rio Grande Hospital Workers Turned Down the Vaccine. A Senator and a Sheriff's Deputy Lined Up Instead.
So many workers at a hospital in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley declined the new COVID-19 vaccine that the facility offered doses to other medical workers in the region. It turns out, the vaccine ended up going to non-medical personnel as well.
4 Ways Health Systems are Approaching COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: Strategies and Technology
Intermountain Healthcare, LifeBridge Health, Ochsner Health, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health share their approaches with HealthLeaders.
'Difficult Winter Ahead' for Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Surge
Hospital operating margins fell while expenses rose above budget expectations, according to the latest Kaufman Hall Flash Report.
 
 

Must Reads

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'No better benefits or wages': Some St. Luke's Hospital nurses say Massachusetts union has failed them
SouthCoast Today / The Standard-Times
 

That's all for today. As always, send any tips, thoughts or advice my way at shoang@blr.com.
 

Son Hoang
Editor, Nursing