Nurse fatigue is increasingly recognized as a significant health concern within the medical community, associated with a variety of physiological, ...

Nursing is synonymous with caregiving, placing nurses in a prime position to experience compassion fatigue.Patients can ...

"To probe the existence of decision fatigue, we wanted to compare decisions from workers (nurses at a national telephone triage and medical advice service in Sweden) at different levels of fatigue ...

who has been working as a nurse in both private and public hospitals around Cape Town since April. “People are becoming ill quickly and we are going all out and are tired,” she said.

The stories are legion about exhausted nurses and doctors working extra shifts to cover, not just the influx of patients, but for their colleagues felled by the disease. And their patients now are ...