Articles Tagged With: bullying
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The End of the Tether: Healthcare Workers in Mental Health Turmoil
Some healthcare workers are hanging by a thread as thin as a suture. Others have fallen — due to COVID-19, workplace violence, or by their own hand. Many have fled healthcare as if it were a burning building. Perhaps, more appropriately, a burned-out building. Too many healthcare workers today are described as anything but well. Mentally, they are at the end of the tether: burned out, morally injured, compassion fatigued, with some depressed to the point of suicidal ideation.
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Crisis Case Management Helps Prevent Teen Suicides
Rates of attempted and completed suicides have increased sharply in recent years, particularly among adolescents. A crisis care program at a children’s hospital provides case management help to teens and their families.
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Is There Racial Tension Among Your Staff?
A sweeping survey on racism by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation yielded some damning findings about nurse-to-nurse racism. A staggering 72% of Black nurses reported experiencing racial discrimination from their own nurse colleagues. The patient level was higher at 88%, but racial incidents involving so many colleagues is disturbing, considering nurses are perennially voted the “most trusted” profession.
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Dealing with Toxic Employees
Everyone has met him or her — and would prefer not to meet them again. But there they are when you arrive for duty: The toxic co-worker.
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Data Show Mistreatment of Medical Students Is Common
It is hard to say if the problem is worse, or if residents are just reporting it more. Regardless, this is a longstanding problem, but few effective solutions or prevention tactics have been implemented.
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Ethics, Case Managers, and the Value Proposition
The pressures case managers face are a reality in a value-based healthcare system. Cost of care and penalties for readmissions are the bottom line in every institution, and that pressure will affect how well case managers perform in their everyday duties. To uphold their ethical tenets, and advocate in the best interests of their patients, a case manager must be prepared to handle these pressures.
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Research on Nurses’ Suicide Risk Reveals Ethical Concerns
Awareness about suicide risk among nurses growing, programs emerging to help before tragedy strikes.
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Workplace Bullying Brings $1.08 Million Verdict
A nurse in Dallas has been awarded $1.08 million for what a jury found was workplace bullying by her boss, a urologist. However, the plaintiff settled for $440,000 just before the verdict was announced.
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Rape and Violence Higher Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Teens
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual high school students are more likely to be assaulted or raped on a date. -
Rape and Violence Higher Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Teens
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual high school students are more likely to be assaulted or raped on a date.