Articles Tagged With: empathy
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‘I Need My Brain!’: Horrors of Long COVID in HCWs
A systematic review of studies on healthcare workers who experienced long COVID in the United Kingdom revealed that many struggled to separate their clinical identity from that of a patient. Healthcare workers with various symptoms of long COVID endured over different lengths of time recognized the uncertainty of their symptoms of this poorly understood syndrome and feared they would be perceived as a burden.
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Patient and Family Complaints Require Careful Response
Healthcare organizations should have processes for responding to complaints from patients and families. The nature and seriousness of the complaint will dictate how much of a response is required.
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Ethicists Find that Empathy, Accurate Information Defuse Conflicts
Families may interpret the word “futile” to mean that clinicians are just giving up, that the patient is not important enough to continue the current level of care, or even that clinicians are trying to clear the bed for a more deserving patient.
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Emergency Nurses Overdosing on Rush of Opioid Patients
Emergency nurses who participated in a study in Philadelphia expressed frustration and other negative emotions about caring for patients addicted to opioids and other drugs.
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Structuring a Stress Program for Healthcare Workers
Techniques that have been shown to help healthcare employees cope with the increased stress of COVID-19.