Fears rise Iowa may lose more nurses to burnout because of COVID-19

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Iowa faced a shortage of nurses prior to COVID-19 and now there’s the fear of a deepening demand for those health care professionals as the pandemic may bring more rapid burnout. Kate Judge, executive director of the American Nurses Foundation, says a new national well-being initiative targets only nurses, of which there are about 60-thousand in Iowa.

“Even before this pandemic, nurses were under extraordinary stress,” Judge says, “and now we have some tools that are specifically designed for nurses, by nurses, that can help them and they’re all free.”

The initiative allows nurses to pick what types of services they may need when they need it, using the website Nursing World.org.