Burnout in nursing began long before the Covid-19 pandemic. What will health care leaders learn from the past months to make sure this problem doesn’t continue into the future?
The Executive Vice ...President and Chief Nursing Officer for CommonSpirit Health discusses challenges nurses are facing during the Covid-19 pandemic, predominantly in terms of staffing, burnout, and compassion fatigue and PTSD; how burnout has been a problem in nursing for decades; and involving nurses in the vision for the future of health care delivery.
How the Apollo Hospitals Group handled the intense spike of Covid-19 cases in India, and what they’ve learned from the thousands of families they’ve treated.
“When it comes to the pandemic, we’re ...going to have to address the issue of human resource exhaustion,” says the Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group in India. He describes how Apollo has been mitigating the Covid-19 crisis and handling burnout, the importance of collaboration and the sharing of needed resources such as oxygen, and the treatment of everyone as family.
Providence St. Joseph Health’s EVP and Chief Clinical Officer discusses how her organization navigated the last several months to get back to pre-pandemic volumes.
Vision, trust, data, capacity, and ...alignment: how Providence St. Joseph Health faced the Covid-19 pandemic by doubling down on a simple model for leading complex change at scale.
A physician and researcher in China for the Covid-19 pandemic, Ewelina Biskup, MD, MPH, discusses that experience, and calls for a big data collection and analysis effort to address the many ...unanswered questions about the virus.
China’s strict and interrelated clinical and social protocols played a key role in its dealing with the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. While many now are looking to colleagues for lessons as the novel coronavirus spreads globally, unanswered questions remain regarding long-term side effects, prospects for organ or tissue damage, identification of prognostic biomarkers, and development of therapeutics. Ewelina Biskup, MD, MPH, calls for robust data recording and the creation of a big data set to support analysis to improve care for the next waves.
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the ...republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner of association between male associates; teachers and students, buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser.
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