Why self-care is not enough for clinicians
Sarah, an emergency room nurse with eight years of experience, did not leave because she stopped caring. She left because the numbers no longer worked. Student loans outpaced her wages, overtime became mandatory without premium pay, and patient loads rose to unsafe levels. Eventually, the arithmetic of her life and work collapsed.
Sarah’s story is not unusual. Across the country, clinicians are leaving medicine in numbers that no longer feel like …
