Sleep Problems Threaten Nurses’ Mental Health

Sleep problems are nothing new to nurses and other frontline healthcare workers, but the pandemic has made them even worse. Find out how this impacts nurses’ mental health and what employers can do about it.

This past weekend, our nation’s capital here in Canada was inundated with truck drivers. No, they weren’t pooling their resources to to try to put an end to our supply chain problems, although that would have been a noble gesture.

Instead, they were protesting the ongoing vaccine and mask mandates our provincial governments have been enacting. One wonders why they converged on our federal parliament when these fall exclusively under provincial jurisdiction, but that’s a separate issue.

Underlying the protests was a general sense of feeling fed up with the ongoing pandemic measures. Jay Hill, interim leader of Alberta’s Maverick Party told the the New York Times that the protestors, “have just reached a point of frustration and exasperation with these lockdowns and continuation of restrictions that they want someone to speak up and say ‘enough.’”

“I Believe in Public Health. Thank you Nurses.”

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that counter-protestors turned out carrying signs with slogans such as, “I believe in…