Long shifts, sick patients and a pandemic to top it, are all forces adding physical and mental stress on healthcare workers.
“That concept of fatigue is experienced every day by our healthcare workers, our public health workers, I would say our frontline health workers,” said Dr.
A recent CDC study found more than 50 percent of healthcare workers surveyed reported at least one mental health condition, like anxiety or depression.
“Thinking about what are the things that are impacting nurses’ health and safety that is leading them to use substances and is there a way we can develop interventions within the work system to address some of those issues,” said Dr.
“We really found that nurses were doing these things to recuperate after work.