Nearly 25% of graduate nursing students report elevated levels of stress, anxiety and depression
Researchers at the University of Colorado College of Nursing have found that nearly one-quarter of graduate nursing students have reported elevated levels of stress, anxiety and depression, compounded in the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Study findings, published recently in
Nurse Educator, also reveal that 23.8% of student respondents scored within the area of clinical concern for PTSD and immune system suppression.
Professions in healthcare are assumed to be high-stress, but the past year brought challenges so unprecedented that it s critical to understand how our students - who juggle clinical work and studies - are faring.
Study: Only 48% of Colorado clinicians provide accurate, unbiased information on abortion news-medical.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news-medical.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Pregnant patients in Colorado may be told about parenting and adoption, but not abortion. This is according to a new study led by Kate Coleman-Minahan of the University of Colorado College of Nursing published in the Access to abortion is a public health priority, said Coleman-Minahan, assistant professor at the CU College of Nursing and lead author of the study. Evidence-based and nonjudgmental counseling on all three pregnancy options (abortion, adoption and parenting) support individual autonomy and the health and well-being of pregnant patients and their families.
While pregnant women want to know all of their options, the study found only 48% of clinicians were willing and able to give them complete, accurate and unbiased information. The staff involved included nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants, not the doctors.
Colorado medical and law schools see surge in applications Fauci effect only part of the reason Medical schools around the country have seen a surge in applications this year, that some have dubbed the âFauci effect,â after the countryâs leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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DENVER Medical schools around the country have seen a surge in applications this year, that some have dubbed the âFauci effect,â after the countryâs leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
But while the pandemic may be raising interest in science and medicine, admissions officials in Colorado believe thereâs more behind the phenomenon.