[SmilingBluEyes]

New nurses facing stress, burnout, survey finds
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:56:48 EST
CBC News


The head of the Manitoba Nurses Union is raising the alarm about the stresses faced by new nurses in light of a recent Ontario study of burnout in the profession.

A study of 225 junior nurses across Ontario suggests 66 per cent had symptoms of burnout, such as emotional exhaustion and depression, less than two years into their jobs, said researchers at the University of Western Ontario.

INDEPTH: Canada's nurses
The nurses pointed to work overload, lack of fairness in the workplace, poor interpersonal relationships and lack of empowerment as contributing to burnout.

see the rest of the article at this link:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/nati...out060228.html

[SmilingBluEyes]

Particularly of concern to me:

the growing number of NEWER nurses already succumbing to burnout.....this really worries me.

[fergus51]

It doesn't surprise me. I think nursing gets more stressful every year...

[SmilingBluEyes]

and its clearly an issue w/o borders.....scary.

[VivaLasViejas]

I don't think it's just nursing that gets more stressful every year, and I don't think it affects just us grownups...........have you seen that commercial for Children's Pepto-Bismol? It's cute, but IMO it inadvertently provides a sorrier commentary about the status of our society these days than all the articles in Time magazine.

The spot features these adorable little girls in ballerina costumes, singing about all the ailments the pink stuff's supposed to fix, including upset stomach, heartburn and 'acid indigestion'. Heartburn?
Acid indigestion??? In little kids?? When I was young, only adults supposedly had trouble with this sort of thing; I'm sure almost everyone of a certain age can recall the ads for Rolaids ("consumes 47 times its own weight in excess stomach acid") and other nostrums. While even then people assumed stomach trouble was often stress-related, I don't think it ever occurred to us kids to pop a Tums before finals or swig a spoonful of Maalox in response to a bit of queasiness.

The heck of it is, kids ARE experiencing these conditions, because their lives are in many ways just as stressful as ours. Childhood obesity and poor diet no doubt contribute to heartburn, and I've heard about children as young as 7 who present with GERD and even ulcers. And now we have a medicine for stress-related tummy trouble that's just for them........how sad.

[SmilingBluEyes]

some very good points, Marla.