Mitigating the “ Burn ” , “ Out ” of Healthcare Transformation.

Lisa, a nurse’s assistant manager suddenly approached her supervisor and calmly handed her resignation paper. The surprised supervisor led Lisa to their office and immediately asked her, “Why?Something wrong? What happened?” Lisa, close to tears, answered in a terse voice, “I’m tired. As in really tired. You know I love this work and I knew this is my calling, but I can’t seem to finish any significant work on my program and my own people is close to collapsing in disagreement and project stasis. Moreover, I’m having family issues with my frequent over times and missed events. I think, I’m going to take that “remote work” offered to me months ago by a healthcare network.” she continued, as tears swelled in her eyes. Lisa was promoted to her current post barely a year ago. She has a lot of potential and was an achiever in her previous post as a unit head. So this came as a shock to her peers. We’ve seen so many Lisa’s in healthcare nowadays. In fact, I’ve been through the same in almost every ladder of my career I felt It was just me resistant or unable to adapt at the rapidly changing and complex healthcare system. Burnout is so common among healthcare workers nowadays that we simply label it as an individual’s inability to cope with the complex and fast changing healthcare, as if it is the healthcare workers fault alone. But, is it? Is it really the individual healthcare worker̵...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Decision Making Focus Health Quality Improvement burnout group attention deficit health workers burnout initiative overload team culture Source Type: blogs