2023 EMS Trend Report: Are We Causing the Stress in EMS?
Editor's Note:On July 21st, 2023, EMS1, Fitch & Associates, and the National EMS Management Association released their annualEMS Trend Report,...
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Kinsie Clarkson
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Feb 03, 2021
This past year has been a rough one for many, but perhaps none more so than the courageous physicians, nurses, EMS providers, and healthcare workers who have put their own safety on the line in order to help take care of COVID-19 patients.
They've been stretched to their limits, in many cases caring for more patients than they thought possible. Katherina Faustino, an ICU nurse from Henderson, Nevada, has doubled the number of patients she's responsible for. Nerissa Black, a nurse in Santa Clarita, California, went from caring for four patients to six, leaving her only ten minutes for each patient every hour.
As we approach the one-year mark since COVID-19 first entered the United States, US emergency medicine physicians are tired. They're experiencing burnout at alarming rates. And now they're sharing their experiences.
On January 11th, 2021, Medscape released the results of their Emergency Medicine Physicians’ COVID-19 Experience Report. Though the results were collected between June and July of 2020, the report gives valuable insight into what EM physicians have experienced during this pandemic. More than 5,000 EM physicians responded.
Here are some of the most noteworthy stats.
Of those surveyed, 71% of respondents were male, and 26% were female. Respondents were evenly spread across an age range of 28 - 70+. 18% worked more than 36 hours per week, while 82% worked 36 or fewer hours each week.
Today is National Women Physicians Day, in honor of the birth date of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States. Learn more about National Women Physicians Day here.
Editor's Note:On July 21st, 2023, EMS1, Fitch & Associates, and the National EMS Management Association released their annualEMS Trend Report,...
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