Fostering compassion and reducing burnout: How can health system leaders respond in the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

In the book “The Help” (Stockett, 2009), an African-American nanny living in Jackson, Mississippi whispers to the small child sitting on her knee: “You is kind, You is smart, You is important”. In this unprecedented time of the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, all nurses need to repeat that phrase to themselves and to others often. Kindness and compassion not only benefit “those who receive it but also to those who...