Nurses deal with COVID ‘terror’ as stress, burnout, suicidal thinking rise By Jeremy Hainsworth | December 10, 2020, 4:04pm
Nurses are showing increasing levels of stress and burnout as the pandemic continues, a new B.C. Nurses Union-UBC survey finds | Tempura/E+/Getty Images
B.C.s frontline healthcare workers are reporting high levels of stress and burnout from the COVID-19 pandemic as case numbers continue to climb.
“COVID has only amplified nurses’ distress levels,” B.C. Nurses Union (BCNU) president Christine Sorensen said. “We have seriously ill nurses who need mental health support to be able to continue to support their patients.”
Sophia Gabiniewicz is well accustomed to dealing with stress as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. But she says it rose to a new level as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic began to swell and she recognized a familiar face in the ICU.
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VANCOUVER - Sophia Gabiniewicz is well accustomed to dealing with stress as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.