{"id":65,"date":"2017-12-04T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:46:05","slug":"individual-strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/solutions\/individual-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Strategies to Promote Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demands placed on clinicians by the health care system contribute greatly to burnout and dissatisfaction<\/a>. In addition to necessary system-level solutions, strategies like mindfulness, meditation, and strengthening one’s own skills and abilities have also shown promise in helping individuals build resilience in both their personal and professional lives.<\/p>\n

Stress on Clinicians and Trainees<\/h3>\n

Clinicians face many complex responsibilities in their daily lives and must make potentially life-saving and life-altering decision each day they show up for work. Strenuous reporting requirements, long work days, and understaffing leave many clinicians with less time with patients than ever before. \u00a0Enduring enormous work stress can be overwhelming and can be compounded by personal stressors.<\/p>\n

While there has been prolonged investigation into the prevalence of clinician burnout, slow progress has been made in actually implementing solutions that help clinicians thrive. While system-level solutions, including buy-in and purposeful investment from leadership, is critical, individual strategies, like mindfulness and strengthening one’s own skills and abilities, also show promise in helping clinicians develop resilience \u00a0and cope with work-related stressors.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness and Meditation<\/h3>\n

Studies suggest that meditation results in anatomical changes in the brain<\/a> that lead to significant reductions of worry, state anxiety, and depression<\/a>. While the practices to cultivate mindfulness originate from traditional Eastern meditation, these practices have increasingly been used in health care settings. Research suggests that formal programs which place an emphasis on learning techniques for mindfulness and open communication can be a useful tool to both clinicians<\/a> and trainees<\/a>. Leadership is instrumental in creating a culture that sustains resilience and supports clinician well-being. Organizations and universities could consider implementing programs<\/a> that allow for practicing clinicians and trainees to learn techniques for practicing mindfulness in their daily lives. Click here to view nine tips for mindfulness.<\/a>\u00a0 Mobile applications are also available<\/a> to help tailor mindfulness to anyone and everyone\u2019s needs. Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy may also help prevent suicidal ideation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0reduce insomnia<\/a>, anxiety, and depression<\/a>\u00a0in clinicians and trainees.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a roundup of mobile applications to help guide your own mindfulness and meditation.<\/p>\n

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Demands placed on clinicians by the health care system contribute greatly to burnout and dissatisfaction. In addition to necessary system-level solutions, strategies like mindfulness, meditation, and strengthening one’s own skills and abilities have also shown promise in helping individuals build resilience in both their personal and professional lives. Stress on Clinicians and Trainees Clinicians face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-topic.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nam.edu\/clinicianwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}