Nov 11, 2021

How panic and distress led one ICU nurse to leave

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Also today: Diane Swonk helps us examine some of the aspects of the labor shortage in today's discussion about the markets.

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Why one former ICU nurse quit his job: "I was having panic attacks"

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon

Nov 11, 2021

Exploring the pandemic's toll on health care workers.

A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient in a Connecticut ICU in April 2020. Understaffing and pandemic stressors have prompted many nurses to consider leaving the field.

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