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3 Ways Nurses Can Get Mental Health Help After the Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hold its firm grasp, nurses across the globe stand strong and tall as waves of patients continually flood...
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How Nurses Cope with Their Mental Health During the COVID Crisis

Nursing is inherently a stressful job, but the coronavirus pandemic has taken things to an entirely new level. With constantly rising rates of nurse...
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Patient Care with Mental Health Disorders

Even with plenty of training and education, it can sometimes be difficult to know exactly the best way to interact with and treat patients...
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Bullying in the Workplace: How Nurses Can Cope

In any workplace, it can be a challenge to deal with your coworkers. Put a bunch of people with different personalities together, and you’re...
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Student Nurse Mental Health Issues

As a nursing student, you undoubtedly have a lot going on! You have classes to attend, clinicals to complete, work to do, and time...
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Nurse Burnout or Stress: What It Is and How to Handle It

All jobs come with some degree of stress, but nurses are subjected to an extremely high level of it. In fact, nurses’ naturally high-stress...
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A BetterHelp Therapy: Just What Nurses May Need Sooner Than Later

Nobody is immune to mental illness. While mental illnesses are a state or condition that involves remarkable changes in one’s emotions, thinking and behavior,...
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Diary Of a COVID Nurse: The Fear and The Hope

Over a year after the first recorded COVID19 case, nurses are still part of the professionals who sacrifice their time, comfort, and even health to...
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The Importance of Nurses Being Diagnosed for Mental Health Issues

Being a nurse is difficult, even before COVID-19. It can be an ironic career, too, where nurses spend so much time taking of others,...
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The Battle of Anxiety and Depression Within Nurses

We, nurses, are always under extreme pressure and faced with problems from our clients, coworkers, and managers; these variables can lead to depression for nurses –...
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How BetterHelp Can Connect with Someone Who Has Depression

Anyone who devotes their life to helping other people will eventually discover that someone they want to help is suffering from depression. This mental...
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Yoga Makes Nursing Easy!

Becoming a nurse can be daunting – “daunting” is an understatement. By definition, the nursing profession is one of the easiest to place in...