Articles Tagged With: burnout
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Veteran Speaker and Consultant on the Struggles of Healthcare Workers
Kathy Espinoza, MBA, MS, CPE, CIE is a frequent speaker on work culture, including work-life balance, motivation and overcoming adversity, and the science of ergonomics in a variety of settings. Hospital Employee Health asked Espinoza to comment on the conditions healthcare workers are currently facing.
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NIOSH Redoubles Emphasis on HCW Mental Health Crisis
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is making good on its promise to restore the battered medical workforce, which is threatening an exodus from the bedside after suffering years of moral injury, belligerent patients, and declining mental health.
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How a ‘Breaking the Rules’ Campaign Engages Staff and Uncovers Outdated Policies
With clinician burnout, a boarding crisis, moral distress, and other concerns making it tough for healthcare leaders to retain staff, it is nice to have an employee-pleasing strategy that can not only make healthcare workers feel as though they have an important voice but also boost operational efficiency. That is the idea behind the “Breaking the Rules for Better Care” initiative spearheaded by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Patient Safety Concerns When ED Nurses Have Poor Working Environments
There is growing evidence that physicians and nurses are concerned about the emergency medicine workforce. Almost half (47%) of emergency medicine programs had unfilled positions in the 2023 U.S. Match, according to a recent study. Emergency nurses report significantly higher rates of burnout, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave the job compared to inpatient nurses, another study found.
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Difficult Cases, Unclear Boundaries Put Ethicists at Risk for Burnout
Many ethicists play an important role in addressing burnout at their organizations — by identifying moral distress, connecting clinicians with resources, or holding debriefings after difficult cases. Yet ethicists themselves are experiencing burnout.
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Navigating Elder Care and Long-Term Care
Elder care in the United States is increasingly a “major source of moral distress in the hospital case management and social work world,” according to Lisa Bednarz, LCSW, CMAC, ACM-SW, ASW-G, regional director of case management for Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health.
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Ethical Decision-Making with Deprescribing for Older Adults
Physicians must consider multiple ethical issues when making decisions on deprescribing for older adults with dementia, a recent study found.
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Nursing Students Have Knowledge Gaps on End-of-Life Communication
Burnout is causing many nurses to consider leaving the field of nursing altogether, as evidenced by multiple recent studies. Lack of preparation for end-of-life care is a source of considerable stress for nursing students.
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Sleep Woes Are a Work Problem, but HCWs Must Be Proactive
Sleep disturbance is an all-too-common problem for healthcare workers, particularly if caused by alternating work shifts from day to night. While the workplace system is the primary driver of insomnia, there are steps healthcare workers can take to reduce the effects, which can be considerable. But has the pendulum swung too far?
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New Normal in Occupational Health: Telework, Equity, Humility
What is the post-pandemic “new normal” in occupational health? Changes that seem here to stay for employee health professionals and their colleagues include telework and telehealth.