ECRI recently sent out an email regarding ways to cope with stress. The email can be read below.
“Resilience under stress—a coping skill that prevents burnout in demanding circumstances—is one of the most valuable attributes that an individual can have and one that is critically important for healthcare organizations to cultivate and safeguard among their providers and other staff members. Research confirms that physicians and other healthcare workers experience high levels of work-related distress. The findings identify the various sources of these challenges for the healthcare workforce and the costly impact on institutions, patients, and medical staff members themselves.
With the new focus on protecting against burnout and other behavioral-health issues seen widely among the healthcare workforce, new strategies for protecting and maintaining resilience have emerged. They involve organizational change as well as the provision of resources and tools to support individual providers and their coworkers. Such strategies permit institutions to make a plan that involves the input of the full range of their staff, create a shift in culture toward employee support, and generate activities to measure, acknowledge, and reward healthful approaches to personal well-being.”
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