52% of US nurses want to quit – Italy: Severe PTSD for ICU and ED workers
A significant impact on patients and on the provision of health services appears to have burnout of health professionals, not only in our country, but internationally, as at least studies show both at the beginning of the pandemic and more recently. An element that impresses and is found in almost all the analyzed data, is that there are not a few health professionals, who either seriously consider leaving the profession, or moving to departments with less serious cases, than those faced by the ICUs, the TEP and the covid pulmonology clinics. This is at least what the pulmonologist, tuberculosis specialist, president of the Union of Pulmonologists of Greece, Dr. Stamatoula Tsikrika, stated in an interview with the FM Agency and on Tania H. Madouvalou’s show “104.9 MYSTIKA HYGEIAS”, who emphasizes that burnout, or otherwise burn out as is the international term, is at the highest levels ever and the pandemic has contributed the most in this direction. “A Greek study published in the scientific journal “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”, and carried out in the first phase of the pandemic in hospitals, Evangelismos, Pammakaristos, NIMITS, Papanikolaou, Trikala General Hospital, and also in ours in Sotiria, showed that one in two suffers from anxiety during their work, more than 90% have a feeling of disorientation (ss how they manage the gravity of the incident and how they move in the health spaces) and depersonalization (ss they lose empathy for the patient), a 45% experience post-traumatic stress manifested by sleep disorders, confusion, mood disorders, but also tendencies to flee the workplace, with a preference for transfer to departments with less serious incidents.”
52% of US nurses want to quit their jobs
The last finding, the tendency to flee from the workplace, is also demonstrated in a recent multicenter study conducted in ten American states and published this year in the “New England Journal of Medicine”, according to which approximately 20% of doctors and over from 52% of the nurses, they want to leave their work, considering that they have too much stress and pressure of duties, during the exercise of the schedule, as Ms. Tsikrikas says, to add afterwards that, either they are thinking of moving to other positions with less pressure, or even change professions. “For the first time more than 500,000 nurses have applied for early retirement by the end of this year, feeling that this is something that will help them escape from the very heavy post-traumatic stress.”
Italy: Severe post-traumatic stress in a percentage of more than 80% for ICU and ICU workers
Corresponding conclusions, according to the president of ENPEL, also arise from studies in Europe. She is even standing in Italy, where a very heavy and deadly first wave of the pandemic passed. “Italian studies that have been published in scientific journals of public health, report that more than 80% of colleagues suffer from very high post-traumatic stress and in fact the people who suffer especially are those who work in Intensive Care Units and Emergency Departments (EDs). These people maintain very negative feelings about possible transmission of the virus from work to home, to family, to friendly persons. And there we meet people who want to take sick leaves, want to be absent from work and want not to occupy positions of responsibility”.
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