Search Tag: burnout
Burn Till You're Out
2017 07 Jun
When using the technical definition of burnout: "The reduction of a fuel to nothing", it clearly describes the state of being of the few people that I have met who are having a burnout. The problem is huge and almost every leader in healthcare agrees that this is a major problem (Swenson et al. 2016). Although many problems arise from using surveys... Read more
Preventing Burnout Among Cardiologists
2017 07 Mar
Physicians are among society’s highest paid and most respected professionals, but they have higher rates of dissatisfaction and burnout compared to other American workers. A possible explanation for why doctors are becoming increasingly burnt out is that they may have lost faith in the practice of medicine itself, according to an Editorial published... Read more
Top 3 Mindfulness Resources for Medical Doctors
2017 02 Feb
Mindfulness is en vogue: the search volume has nearly quadrupled over the last 5 years according to Google Trends and the PubMed results count echoes this exponential growth as well. Mindfulness began to gain momentum in the Western medical community after the introduction of mindfulness-based stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical... Read more
Burnout Syndrome in Critical Care: What Needs to Happen Now?
2016 20 Jul
Following the release of the U.S. Critical Care Societies Collaborative Call to Action on Burnout Syndrome, ICU Management & Practice interviewed co-authors Ruth Kleinpell and Vicki Good from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.Q. Is there a tendency for health professionals experiencing burnout not to admit it or recognise it? Kleinpell:... Read more
Action Needed on Burnout, Says Critical Care Societies Collaborative
2016 19 Jul
When over half of critical care health professionals experience burnout syndrome, it is time to act, says the Critical Care Societies Collaborative (CCSC) in the United States. The call to action on burnout syndrome (BOS) outlines risk factors and diagnostic criteria for BOS, prevalence, causes and consequences, and urges stakeholders to help mitigate... Read more
Cybersecurity: Who Can You Trust?
2016 12 Jul
A new Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) report has highlighted a new threat to cybersecurity in healthcare; technology companies that cannot deliver the security that they promise. As Ransomware incidents have spread throughout healthcare, CISOs of hospitals have been under increasing pressure to safeguard the security and privacy... Read more
Is Job Burnout Associated with Infections?
2016 10 May
The high risk of burnout in ICU staff is well-known as is the high rate of healthcare-associated infections. Evidence is emerging of an association between staff burnout and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), when high levels of stress may lead to less attention to infection control. The effect of burnout on teamwork and indirectly on infections... Read more
Who Let the Dogs Out?
2016 11 Apr
Rush University Medical Centre is developing an innovative programme for helping relieve medic stress and burnout; bringing in four-legged friends for a petting session. Animal therapy, as it is known, has been proven to help decrease stress and anxiety of hospital patients. The university’s Pet Pause programme is now being extended to hospital staff. Healthcare... Read more