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title: "Nursing during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Burnout alert"
description: "Have you ever complained about receiving a negative experience from a nurse? You may start to understand why, when you consider the stresses and demands of their daily tasks. Burnout is real. We speak to a group of nurses about their working life through the Covid-19 pandemic and how they're struggling to keep up."
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# Nursing during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Burnout alert

> Have you ever complained about receiving a negative experience from a nurse? You may start to understand why, when you consider the stresses and demands of their daily tasks. Burnout is real. We speak to a group of nurses about their working life through the Covid-19 pandemic and how they're struggling to keep up.

By Street Talk · Published 2 March 2021, 20:24 SAST · Updated 2 March 2021, 20:54 SAST

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