Abstract
[This is an excerpt.] Since the beginning of the COVID- 19 pandemic, healthcare workers- especially those caring for the acute and critically ill- have faced constant, often unimaginable and unending pressure from working in settings that were all-too-often understaffed, underresourced, and seemingly under siege. Aside from the stress and fatigue of being overworked from taking care of profoundly ill patients with a new and highly contagious virus, clinicians were further burdened by the very real risk of contracting the disease themselves and placing their loved ones at risk illness as well. These pressures are likely worse in the ICU and in related high acuity settings, where the most seriously ill patients are treated and where physicians and other providers already labor under conditions of heightened stress that make them even more prone to burnout, moral distress, and emotional angst. [To read more, click View Resource.]
