Articles Tagged With: emotional
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Emotional Eating and Obesity
This review of research regarding the link between emotional eating (eating in response to unpleasant emotions) and obesity in adults suggested several factors that contribute to emotional eating and methods for patients to reduce it.
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Mystery Malaise: Discovering and Defining Burnout
Despite 40 years of research, definitions of key terms and measures regarding burnout are not yet standardized, hindering efforts to compare studies and to evaluate efficacy of treatment. Signs of burnout, such as emotional depletion and poor energy, overlap with mental health diagnosis (depression and anxiety, for example), leading some to wonder if burnout is a subtype of a mental health disorder.
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Nurses Offer Advice for Case Managers to Help Frontline COVID-19 Staff
Case managers, social workers, and nurses from other areas of the hospital have been the back-up support to critical care nurses during the COVID-19 crisis. Many underwent training to assist frontline staff during COVID-19 critical care peaks. They provided help with restocking personal protective equipment, and offered emotional and mental health support.
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Complications post-thyroid surgery lead to patient death, $1.3 million verdict
News: A patient undergoing thyroid surgery was accompanied to the hospital by her sister and daughter. After surgery, the patient began to struggle with her breathing. The patient’s sister and daughter observed the surgeon and nurses work on the patient for more than 30 minutes, during which time the patient’s condition deteriorated until the patient stopped breathing and lost her pulse, which led to permanent brain injury. The patient died 10 days later.