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Articles Tagged With: well-being

  • Effect of Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation on Psychological Well-Being

    A randomized trial of catheter ablation vs. medical therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients has shown that anxiety and depression scores are significantly reduced by catheter ablation and are associated with decreases in AF burden and improved physical symptoms.

  • Effect of Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation on Psychological Well-Being

    A randomized trial of catheter ablation vs. medical therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients has shown that anxiety and depression scores are significantly reduced by catheter ablation and are associated with decreases in AF burden and improved physical symptoms.

  • Health Worker Burnout Is a Crisis; CDC Calls for Science-Based Steps to Improve Worker Well-Being

    It is hardly a news flash to providers and staff in the ED that they often work long hours in a highly stressful environment, but according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the levels of fatigue and burnout that all healthcare workers are experiencing have reached crisis levels, and administrators there are calling for urgent action to address the problem.

  • Healing HCWs — Including IPs — Is a National Priority for CDC, NIOSH

    Burnout among all stripes of healthcare workers — including infection preventionists — has become a dire situation warranting national action. Accordingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have released new research and emphasized available resources to raise awareness for an ambitious “system change” in healthcare delivery.

  • Is There a Doctor in the House?

    With high levels of physician burnout, demographic changes, and increasing demand for Medicare by an aging nation, the shortage of physicians may reach more than 100,000 in the next decade, the American Medical Association reported.

  • The End of the Tether: Healthcare Workers in Mental Health Turmoil

    Some healthcare workers are hanging by a thread as thin as a suture. Others have fallen — due to COVID-19, workplace violence, or by their own hand. Many have fled healthcare as if it were a burning building. Perhaps, more appropriately, a burned-out building. Too many healthcare workers today are described as anything but well. Mentally, they are at the end of the tether: burned out, morally injured, compassion fatigued, with some depressed to the point of suicidal ideation.

  • The Hippocratic Oath: Are We Hurting Ourselves and Each Other?

    While there are multiple definitions of well-being, it commonly is described as a dynamic and ongoing process involving self-awareness and healthy choices, resulting in a successful and balanced lifestyle. Burnout results from chronic stress, which leads to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased feelings of personal accomplishment. Unfortunately, given the rigor of the healthcare profession, healthcare providers often need to remember to consider their emotional well-being while navigating the shift toward an oligopolistic medical industry that perpetuates the cycle by focusing on profit — totaling 18.3% of the gross domestic product.

  • Virginia Removing Barriers for HCWs to Seek Counseling

    Virginia is going “all in” statewide with an effort to improve and protect the mental and emotional well-being of healthcare workers by removing invasive questions in licensing reviews so they can seek counseling without fear of stigma and job loss.

  • Healing Groups Bringing Happiness, Joy to Nurses

    Support groups help nurses with occupational anxiety, strengthening mental health and offering ways to manage stress.

  • Emergency Clinicians’ Emotional Reactions to Psychiatric Patients Affect Care, Well-Being

    Survey participants painted a picture of negative healthcare experiences, for both patients and clinicians, that are adversely affecting the quality of care and staff well-being. Change is badly needed to ensure these vulnerable patient populations receive care — and to support ED providers.