Posts Tagged "Burnout Prevention"

5 Self Care Tips to Save Your Healthcare Career and Your Sanity

By Crystal Jones RN - December 12, 2017

You work hard. Day and night, evenings and weekends, holidays and celebrations. You work, giving your time and energy to take care of everybody else. But who takes care of you? Who takes care

5 Self Care Tips to Save Your Healthcare Career and Your Sanity

4 Signs You Are Burning Out

By Mitchel Schwindt, MD - August 31, 2017

...I wanted to share a few subtle signs of burnout that can change the trajectory of a medical career. With increased workload, requirements for electronic health record documentation, system inefficiencies and the normal day-to-day stresses of clinical practice, it is easy to see why a life in medicine has taken its toll on many physicians...

Code Lavender: Healthcare Providers Caring for Themselves

By Sheramy Tsai - July 20, 2017

Stress is an inherent part of working in the health care system. While health care providers become accustomed to the daily stressors involved in their jobs, some moments arise that push caregivers past their emotional limits. Whether these situations consist of the death of a colleague, a stressful interaction between two health care providers, a difficult patient situation, or a variety of other stress-inducing situations, “Code Lavender” may be just what the doctor ordered.

Code Lavender - Healthcare Providers Caring for Themselves

How the Corporatization of Medicine Saved My Life

By Mitchel Schwindt, MD - July 5, 2017

The wake-up call came just a few years later. The stated merger with a larger national group was nothing of the sort. I soon found my pay restructured, pension wiped out, and profit sharing canceled. By then my family was firmly rooted in the community and moving was not an option. As I watched many of my colleagues and friends pack up and leave, I found myself drowning in this bleak new reality.

How the Corporatization of Medicine Saved My Life

The Hands of Time Don't Stop for Physicians Either

By Mitchel Schwindt, MD - May 23, 2017

I would love to rewind the clock and work a bit less, skip a few more meetings, and grab an afternoon nap as often as possible. I'd like to think I would ignore the lure of a nice bonus check and take an extra vacation with the kids. Instead of moonlighting to get those student loans erased, I'd take a long, slow walk with my wife and just sit quietly watching the sunset. The hands of time wait for no one. Choose to spend those moments wisely with contemplation and great care.