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The Daily Briefing, The Advisory Board - Nov. 15, 2018
Excerpt:
"Burnout impacts as many as a third of all nurses, but there may be a simple way to mitigate the problem—having nurses take an outdoor break in a garden, according to a study published in the American Journal of Critical Care. For the study, researchers studied burnout levels among nurses at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Oregon for two summers. Nurses were randomly assigned to one of two groups: those who took a daily work break in the hospital's garden for six weeks and those who took daily work breaks indoors for six weeks. ..."
