Now that you have clarity around what you want to achieve, what are the steps that will get your there? For success and freedom, use habits to create sustainable action steps. From the outside it may look simple to others as to how you can achieve your desired result, somehow from the internal view it is…
Alleviate Burnout in Healthcare
Physician and nurse burnout are system issues and individual issues. Individuals as well as institutions can develop strategies to alleviate burnout and make suffering and this problem less severe. According to the Medscape Lifestyle Report 2017, the top four reasons identified for burnout by physicians were Too many Bureaucratic tasks – all those government and…
Gratitude for Well-Being
Gratitude is a strong happiness booster. Positive Psychology research has found that being thankful and appreciative is one of the most powerful ways to move toward a more positive outlook and attitude. Gratitude is so powerful that happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky refers to gratitude as a “metastrategy.” Simply put, practice gratitude for well-being. Double meaning…
Use Strengths to Overcome Burnout
Using your strengths every day is a way to increase your energy, make an impact and enjoy life more. You can use strengths to overcome burnout and move to well-being. The three hallmark signs of burnout are: Exhaustion, especially emotional exhaustion Depersonalization – insensitive and callous toward patient and family concerns; referring to patients as…
Take Charge to Build Positivity
Does being in charge ever make you feel uncomfortable? Do your colleagues balk that you’re overlooking their work, when you’re getting an overview of what’s going on so you can help plan distribution of work and admissions, as they come in. There are ways you can take charge to build positivity and lessen burnout. It…
Dynamic Balance for Well-Being
There is a lot of talk about work-life balance and a question of whether such a thing should even be discussed; isn’t work part of life? With burnout, you may be feeling as if all there is, is work, work at the office, work in the clinic, work at home, work in planning and running…
