Book – Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub

Guidebook for Promoting Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

NAM — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:06:57 +0000

The following guidebook, published by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, provides a comprehensive approach to promoting well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It contains crisis strategies for planning and preparation before a surge, implementing a crisis management plan, and dealing with the aftermath of a surge and its impact on healthcare workers.

Review of Emotional Resiliency for the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician’s Guide by Leslie Davenport (Foreword by Lise Van Susteren)

NAM — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:33:02 +0000

The following book review, published in Ecopsychology, praises a practical clinical guide made to deal with the escalating environmental-caused trauma in consulting rooms and communities. It explores the undeveloped field of climate psychology through case studies, practical exercises, resiliency tools, and evidence-based best practices drawn from expert clinical research.

What Will it Take for Physicians to Practice Mindfully?: Promoting Quality of Care, Quality of Caring, Resilience, and Well-Being

NAM — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:49:40 +0000

Mindful clinical practice, as described in a chapter of The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, is associated with mindful attitudes, such as adopting multiple perspectives on a clinical situation, attention to context, considering facts as conditional, seeing novelty in familiar situations, modulating reactivity and considering diagnostic categories as provisional. The chapter provides evidence and illustrations on the link between mindfulness, greater resilience and well-being in the healthcare workforce, and the potential to reverse the trends toward burnout, attrition and alienation. Furthermore, it focuses on how mindful practice might be promoted through institutional and individual efforts involving trainees and practicing clinicians.

Physician Mental Health and Well-Being: Research and Practice edited by Kirk J. Brower, M.D., and Michelle B. Riba, M.D., M.S. New York, Springer, 2017, 326 pp., $69.99 (hardcover)

NAM — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:45:49 +0000

This book explores the important topic of mental health and related problems among physicians and trainees. Separated into three parts with overlapping themes, the book is for care providers, leaders, and organizations. Part I focuses on symptoms and manifestation of problems at the workplace, part II on disorders underlying the symptoms, and part III on individual and organizational interventions. The continuum of health and well-being is investigated with developmental context. All in all, the authors wrote the book to outline effective pathways to well-being and a healthy work-life balance, to foster optimal and safe patient-care.

Addressing Burnout in Oncology: Why Cancer Care Clinicians Are At Risk, What Individuals Can Do, and How Organizations Can Respond

NAM — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:57:06 +0000

Published in the American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book, Hlubocky highlights the need to proactively address prevention of burnout as well as targeting established burnout need for cancer care professionals. From an individual perspective, oncology clinicians must be empowered to play a crucial role in enhancing their own wellness by identification of burnout symptoms in both themselves and their colleagues, learning resilience strategies (e.g., mindful self-compassion), and cultivating positive relationships with fellow clinician colleagues. At the organizational level, leadership must recognize the importance of oncology clinician well-being; engage leaders and physicians in collaborative action planning, improve overall practice environment, and provide institutional wellness resources to physicians.

Organizational-Level Interventions to Promote Physician Health and Well-Being: From Taking Care of Physicians to Giving Patients Care

NAM — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:33:24 +0000

This chapter in the Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care book series (IPPC) emphasizes that enhancing individual resiliency can inadvertently shift sole responsibility onto physicians. The emphasis on organizational interventions ought to be on (1) work overload relative to the time available, (2) insufficient autonomy with loss of both discretionary time and input into decisions affecting patient care, (3) a non-supportive interpersonal work environment, (4) incentives tied to productivity, based on increased fiscal and performance monitoring, with diminishing respect and appreciation, (5) perceived organizational injustice, and (6) misaligned values between physicians and their organizations. Local interventions should be uniquely crafted by physicians based on the work factors they identify in their clinical units. Interventions should be supported to uphold the three-fold aims of leadership: healthcare of populations, enhancing their patients’ experience of care, and reducing costs.

Teams that Work (and Those That Don’t): Creating Conditions for Effective Teamwork

NAM — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:28:44 +0000

This book, edited by J. Richard Hackman, explores the design and leadership of groups by providing descriptions of 27 diverse work groups. It aims to offer insights on what factors affect group productivity, and how leaders and group members can contribute to overall effectiveness.