Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

The pandemic has pushed already stressed nurses away from a demanding field. Does the job need to be rethought? One morning in the fall of 2020, Francesca Camacho attempted to merge onto the interstate after leaving her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She described the day's labour as "simply absolutely horrible." The Cook County region was witnessing the highest rates of Covid hospitalisation it had ever seen, only eclipsed by the Omicron variant wave the following year. This wasn't unusual at the time. She had created the habit of calling her parents to unwind after a shift, and she was doing so when she saw what appeared to be a youthful driver in front of her. The next day, she inquired of her coworkers as to if something such had ever occurred to them.