Articles Tagged With: burnout
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Spirituality: The Missing Pillar of Whole-Person Care
Spirituality is a critical yet often overlooked component of whole-person care. Evidence shows that attending to patients’ spiritual needs can improve coping, reduce anxiety and depression, and enhance satisfaction with care, while also strengthening the therapeutic relationship. Importantly, integrating spiritual care also supports clinician well-being by reconnecting providers with purpose and mitigating burnout, making it beneficial for both patients and practitioners.
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SWOT Analysis of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming clinical workflows, especially by reducing documentation time and after-hours work, and improving work-life balance, with studies showing substantial drops in burnout within weeks of implementation. As AI systems continue to demonstrate strong medical knowledge and performance, they offer clinicians a powerful way to elevate accuracy, streamline tasks, and improve patient understanding without replacing clinical judgment.
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Career Satisfaction and the Unmet Need for Infectious Disease Clinicians
There is a shortage of physicians in the United States, and many current physicians are considering reducing or ending their current clinical practices. Leading risk factors for discontinuing clinical work are taking fewer than 15 days of vacation each year, continuing to respond to electronic medical record inbox messages during vacation, and working more than 30 minutes per day during vacation.
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Reduced Control and Workplace Burnout
This cross-sectional study of more than 2,000 physicians from diverse healthcare organizations found that reduced control over specific aspects of practice — such as patient load, clinical hours, and overall workload — was significantly associated with not only higher levels of burnout, but also increased intentions to reduce clinical hours or leave practice altogether.
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Burnout in the Emergency Department
This article examines the unique challenges of burnout in emergency department providers, exploring its impact on individuals, teams, and patient care. After an overview of the phenomenon, including historical trends and current statistics, this article will discuss actionable strategies to mitigate burnout and foster resilience, illustrated through real-world experiences of emergency medicine professionals.
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Unhurried Patient Care
Unhurried conversations during patient encounters can improve outcomes for patients and enhance career satisfaction of physicians. Specific communication strategies can foster unhurried conversations without adding undue time to clinical care.
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From Exhaustion to Empowerment: Combating Physician Burnout in Healthcare
Medicine always has been demanding, both emotionally and intellectually. Yet, primary care providers have found deep purpose in their work. However, the modern practice of medicine brings new challenges, such as administrative burdens, financial strain, and large patient loads, contributing to widespread burnout. This paper examines burnout in the primary care provider and its related consequences and offers practical strategies for supporting provider well-being.
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Ethicists Offer Unique Skills to Address Workplace Violence
For hospitals attempting to address workplace violence, the focus typically is on concrete interventions: Providing de-escalation training, adding metal detectors, or bolstering security. What is less well-understood are the ethical implications of violence.
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Compassion Fatigue Threatens Patient Safety
Nurses are experiencing compassion fatigue more than ever — and patient safety can suffer as a result. Long hours, staff shortages, and emotional and physical exhaustion have contributed to about 100,000 registered nurses leaving the workforce during the pandemic due to stress, according to a recent report.
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Veteran Speaker and Consultant on the Struggles of Healthcare Workers
Kathy Espinoza, MBA, MS, CPE, CIE is a frequent speaker on work culture, including work-life balance, motivation and overcoming adversity, and the science of ergonomics in a variety of settings. Hospital Employee Health asked Espinoza to comment on the conditions healthcare workers are currently facing.