Pandemic scientists fight burnout

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Relational Aggression and Burnout: Fight, Hide, or Run?

Scientists invited to join teachers in fight against scientific illiteracy.

As a tropical disease specialist, AAAS member Barbara Sina has traveled the world from Brazil to Kenya to the Netherlands. But few ofher trips have proved more satisfying than the visits she's paid closer to home-to Margaret Brent Middle School in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland. It was there that Sina got her first taste of teaching science to adolescents as a partner to 7thgrade teacher Ton...

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Burnout in a sample of Iranian nurses during COVID-19 pandemic

Aims: Currently, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 has imposed a wide range of stressors that can negatively affect nurses and other health care workers. This study aimed to investigate the severity of burnout among nurses working in COVID-19 wards in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Kashan in 2020. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2020 on 372 nurses worki...