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Burnout among nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers was a pervasive problem even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now that the U.S. has been living with the coronavirus for over a year, some on the front lines are starting to bow to the pressure.
This was exemplified in a recent survey from the American Nurses Foundation, which found that the pandemic is causing 92% of nurses to consider leaving the workforce. Nearly half cite insufficient staffing as one of the primary reasons.
In some ways, it was a crisis waiting to happen. The healthcare system wasn t prepared for a public health crisis of this magnitude, and the crisis highlighted fractures that had been building within the industry.
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Just Half of Long-Term Caretakers Are Vaccinated Against COVID
Marie Branham, resident director at Atria Springdale in Louisville, Kentucky, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21. She was one of the first staff members at the long-term care facility to be vaccinated.
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FORT WORTH, Texas When Alice Hakata first heard her colleagues at the Midlothian Healthcare Center debating whether they were going to take a COVID-19 vaccine, she remembers joking with them, “Well, that just makes the line in front of me shorter.”
The 59-year-old physical therapist got her first shot in late January at a mass vaccination site in Fort Worth. As she waited for her second dose, she continued hearing staff members at the skilled nursing facility, located 25 miles south of Dallas, sharing their fears about the vaccines.