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    Nurse and doctor burnout demands ‘bold’ fixes

    A new report offers recommendations for the best ways to address the widespread problem of burnout among doctors, nurses, and other health care workers.
    by Johns Hopkins University Dec 27, 2019 0 minutes
    A hospital worker puts her hand to her forehead while looking at a stack of medical files

    Health care providers continuously need to do more with fewer resources to help sick patients. That leads to clinician burnout, experts warn.

    This fall, the National Academy of Medicine released a new report on the topic, Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being, bringing forth evidence-based recommendations for addressing the problem in the future.

    Here, Cynda Hylton Rushton, professor of clinical ethics at the Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, discusses the findings and what they mean for health care providers going forward:

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