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Resource topic: Organizational Strategies
A Literature Review of Nursing Turnover Costs

This review article published in the Journal of Nursing Management summarizes data and trends of nursing staff turnover costs from 1990 to 2010. Inconsistencies in...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

This article in Harvard Business Review traces the history of patient safety and health care metrics. The physician-author reports that the sound correlations...

Article
Forbidden Topics

This article in Annals of Internal Medicine discusses how taboo depression and suicide is in the medical profession, specifically residency training. Among the...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
Educational Innovations to Foster Resilience in the Health Professions

Kreitzer's article in Medical Teacher discusses the culture in healthcare as being on in which students have are to forego personal needs, endure stressful...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Tibetan Buddhism-Based ‘Compassion’ Training for Doctors Targets Burnout

This article in the Washington Post discusses the prevalence of a specific type of burnout called compassion fatigue and downstream effects to patient health....

Article
Successful Teams

Published in the Hematology News, Department Chair Matt Kalaycio discusses teamwork, social capital, and emotional intelligence in health care teams. Shifting from...

Article
Transformation of Mental Health Care for U.S. Soldiers and Families During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: Where Science and Politics Intersect

Scientific as well as political factors have influenced how the military has addressed the mental health needs resulting from 14 years of the the Iraq/Afghanistan...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Nurse-Physician Perspectives on the Care of Dying Patients in Intensive Care Units: Collaboration, Moral Distress, and Ethical Climate

Hamric's study, published in Critical Care Medicine, aims to explore the relationships among moral distress, ethical climate, physician/nurse collaboration, and...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care

This white paper, published by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, develops a framework providing clarity and direction in healthcare organizations to improve...

Report
Professionalism Charter Provides Guidance to Health Care Organizations in These Troubled Times

The article, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlights the risk to physician well-being as physicians, many of whom are already facing burnout, worry...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
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