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Why are Nurses at Particular Risk of Chronic Exhaustion?

Posted on August 4, 2024 by EBailey

This week’s blog comes from Alison McGrath, a nurse now working as an independent wellbeing coach, and explores whether nurses may be at risk of chronic exhaustion. Why do nurses smoke?  Because the doctors have eaten all the chocolate. So went the joke when I was a student nurse in the early 1990s.  We all […]

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