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Evaluating the Costs of Burnout Attributed Turnover

NAM — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:12:36 +0000

This study sought to understand the cost of nurse burnout-attributed turnover using hypothetical hospital scenarios.

How ChristianaCare Provides System-Wide Peer-to-Peer Support

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:11:06 +0000

Read an overview of a peer-to-peer support model as part of the Christiana Care for the Caregiver program. The program provides short-term emotional support from trained peer volunteers within 24-48 hours of a referral.

At the Heart of the Pandemic: Nursing Peer Support

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:59:43 +0000

This article outlines nurses’ experiences during the pandemic, describes peer support basics, offers best practices for peer support programs, and presents lessons learned from 2 mature peer support programs.

Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Wellness Culture and Environment Support Scale

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:36:56 +0000

This study reports on the psychometric properties of the 11-item Perceived Wellness Culture and Environment Support Scale (PWCESS) and its relationship with employee healthy lifestyle beliefs and behaviors.

Supporting Well-Being Through the Implementation of Education and a Relaxing Retreat Space

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:31:32 +0000

The objective of this study was to determine whether an innovative program including psychoeducation grounded in positive psychology and awareness of cognitive biases, along with access to a dedicated relaxation environment, would lower burnout for nurses.

A Call to Action: Align Well-Being and Antiracism Strategies

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:05:49 +0000

Racism and well-being in the health care workforce are linked, and efforts to address clinician well-being should not be isolated from antiracism efforts. A longitudinal commitment is needed by organizations, acknowledging their duty to act as a partner in antiracism and well-being efforts and codifying that duty to peers, education and training, the health care workforce, patients, and payers.

Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:04:25 +0000

This is a call to every health system, hospital, and clinical practice to adopt specific actions to keep physicians and other clinicians in the workforce. The entities that employ us must move beyond suggesting stress-reduction activities, such as yoga and meditation, to providing the tactical support clinicians need to safely care for patients and support one another.

Physician Well-being 2.0: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 01:36:54 +0000

This perspective summarizes the historical phase of this journey (the “era of distress”), the current state (Well-being 1.0), and the early contours of the next phase based on recent research and the experience of vanguard institutions (Well-being 2.0). The key characteristics and mindset of each phase are summarized to provide context for the current state, to illustrate how the field has evolved, and to help organizations and leaders advance from Well-being 1.0 to Well-being 2.0 thinking.

Wellness-Centered Leadership: Equipping Health Care Leaders to Cultivate Physician Well-Being and Professional Fulfillment

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 01:33:35 +0000

This article proposes a new integrative model of Wellness-Centered Leadership (WCL). WCL includes core skills and qualities from the foremost leadership philosophies along with evidence on the relationship between leadership and physician well-being and distills them into a single framework designed to cultivate leadership behaviors that promote engagement and professional fulfillment.

Physician Burnout—A Serious Symptom, But of What?

NAM — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:42:14 +0000

This editorial published in Jama Network discusses the term burnout and how its meaning has gone far beyond what is understood about it as a diagnosis or syndrome. The call to action for burnout is not grounded in understanding its prevalence using validated measures. There is so much heterogeneity in methods of measuring burnout that drawing conclusions of its impact is nearly impossible. This points to either unreliability in measurement or populations that vary widely in risk. Additionally, the temporal relationship of burnout symptoms to professional dysfunction is unknown and needs further research to understand. Many propose having a research agenda the would emphasis and expand measurements of burnout through the MBI scale.