A nurse asleep in a hospital wing. Fatigue resulting from insufficient sleep can negatively affect cumulative daytime performance and hamper adequate patient care. Health care workers experience ...

Feeling exhausted all the time isn’t just a normal part of being busy. Learn the common causes of fatigue in women and ...

Credit: Getty Images. A study sought to determine if mindfulness-based stress reduction would ease compassion fatigue and burnout among the facility’s pediatric oncology nurses. A mindfulness-based ...

Catie Harris, PhD, RN, associate professor in the graduate programs at Philadelphia-based Jefferson College of Nursing, discusses compassion fatigue, an often-ignored phenomena among nurses and ...

Nurses exposed to 40 minutes of bright light before their night shifts feel less fatigued and make fewer errors at work, according to a study led by McGill University. The nurses also slept better ...

Difficult decisions, such as those made by health care professionals every day, can be stressful and mentally demanding. Some past psychology studies suggest that making these hard decisions can ...

Nurses operate within a highly competitive job market, and as is the case in other high-stress fields, there's a fatigue starting to set in. Burnout is a very real danger, and much like physicians, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The influx of COVID patients has some Bay Area hospitals and their staffs stretched thin. KTVU spoke to the head nurse of the COVID unit at San Jose’s Regional Medical Center about ...