Articles Tagged With: burnout
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Physicians Can Suffer Moral Injury if Oath to Patients Is Broken
Long before the pandemic, physicians were suffering from “moral injury” — a violation of one’s values, ethical code, or sworn duty — because too often they had to choose between their patients and the profits and performance measures of corporate medicine, claims the author of a new book.
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Healthcare Workers Weather Respiratory Onslaught
In a seemingly interminable viral winter, healthcare workers are facing a rare convergence of a pandemic virus and unusually high levels of seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus. Some are tired and sick; others sick of being tired. As EDs stretch capacity to the limits to treat respiratory patients, others with various conditions and critical needs are backed up.
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Primary Care Is on Life Support, But Case Management Could Be Antidote
Primary care is facing decline due to financial factors and clinician burnout. One solution is to assign case managers or care coordinators to primary care offices to improve communication between primary care providers, hospitals, and other healthcare entities.
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Leverage Rounding, Team-Based Interventions to Address Frontline Burnout
A Texas-based health system looks at employee well-being through a quality and safety lens, directly connecting worker well-being to the organization’s efforts to improve patient safety.
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Physicians Sometimes Need Help to Improve Documentation
Good charts and proper documentation take time, but technology and scribes can speed the process and improve the quality of documentation.
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Healthcare Teams Want Transparency, Recognition from Leaders During Crises
When researchers studied how COVID-19 surges affected teamwork, they found something essential and seemingly innocuous: Frontline staff, including care coordinators, wanted face time with their leaders.
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Research Shows How Teamwork Changed During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis response relied on interprofessional teamwork. But for care coordinators and pharmacists, the team experience during the pandemic was far from optimal, according to a recent study.
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Build a Healthy Relationship with Insurance Providers
It can be a tense relationship. Healthcare systems and providers — including case managers — have admitted it sometimes feels like insurance is the enemy, and patients have been known to carry that same sentiment. How should case managers and other healthcare professionals work out a healthy connection with insurance companies, and even work to strengthen that connection to help build a more positive view of the relationship among healthcare, insurance, and the patient?
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Burnout Affects Nearly Half of Nurses, Physicians
Teamwork may be an antidote to burnout in healthcare. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout affected 43% of physicians and nurses. Doctors reported more isolation, according to a recent study. Worse, the pandemic pushed burnout to crisis levels, affecting more than half of all nurses and physicians.
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Using Technology to Alleviate HCW Stress, Strengthen Resiliency
As healthcare worker stress and burnout spiked during the pandemic, organizations searched for ways to alleviate the burden, including finding new uses for technology. To help healthcare workers adjust to these significant sources of stress, health systems can build and enhance resiliency.