Social workers and nurses are experiencing acute levels of stress during the pandemic. This stress is due to the difficulty of providing services to clients who are in states of crisis, while simultaneously experiencing COVID-19-related trauma in their own lives. As current professionals report burnout and exhaustion, students training for these professions are also experiencing adverse impacts. For professions already seeing worker shortages before the pandemic, this complicates the path toward filling unmet needs in the workforce (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2020; Spurlock, 2020). Moreover, it could compromise progress toward the so-called triple aim in health care—enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs—(Berwick, Nolan, & Whittington, 2008). Care team well-being is a prerequisite for the triple aim, thus calls for an expanded version—the quadruple aim—which would include provider well-being and prevention of burnout (Bachynsky, 2020; Batcheller, Zimmermann, Pappas, & Adams, 2017; Bodenheimer & Sinsky, 2014). In this column, we present recent research on the stress being felt among social workers and nurses on the existing workforce shortages and discuss the pressure experienced by students who hope to join these fields. We conclude with a preview of measures presented by the Biden–Harris administration to support colleges and universities and particular efforts to replenish the health care workforce as disruption caused by the pandemic evolves.

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COVID-19 对现在和未来社会工作和护理的影响：国家政府计划

在大流行期间，社会工作者和护士承受着巨大的压力。这种压力是由于难以为处于危机状态的客户提供服务，同时在自己的生活中经历与 COVID-19 相关的创伤。由于当前的专业人士报告倦怠和疲惫，接受这些职业培训的学生也受到了不利影响。对于在大流行之前就已经出现工人短缺的职业来说，这使得填补劳动力未满足需求的道路变得更加复杂（美国护理学院协会，2020 年；Spurlock，2020 年）。此外，它可能会损害所谓的医疗保健三重目标的进展，即增强患者体验、改善人口健康和降低成本（Berwick、Nolan 和 Whittington，2008）。护理团队的福祉是三重目标的先决条件，因此需要一个扩展版本——四重目标——其中包括提供者的福祉和预防倦怠（Bachynsky，2020；Batcheller、Zimmermann、Pappas 和 Adams，2017 ；博登海默和辛斯基，2014）。在本专栏中，我们介绍了关于社会工作者和护士因现有劳动力短缺而感受到的压力的最新研究，并讨论了希望加入这些领域的学生所经历的压力。最后，我们预览了拜登-哈里斯政府提出的支持学院和大学的措施，以及随着大流行造成的破坏而补充医疗保健劳动力的特别努力。