Nurse well-being: how to stay calm when the world feels chaotic

Relentless news coverage of shocking or grim events can sap your emotional reserves. Follow our tips to maintain your focus at work and your well-being

• Nurses deal with emotional situations and make empathetic connections as part of their work, and may feel overloaded by exposure to continuous negative new stories
• Six tips on escaping the full impact of depressing news stories, from ending the doom scroll to setting boundaries in discussions of events
• What you can do if you spot the signs of compassion fatigue and how to deal with so-called eco-anxiety

Sometimes it can seem like the world is dominated by bad news – from the climate crisis to COVID-19 and devastating