Advance Your Practice to Include Joy and Reduce Burnout

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality characterizes burnout as emotional exhaustion resulting in depersonalization and decreased personal work accomplishment.1 There is a real danger for the loss of the human capacity for empathy. A 2017 Institute for Healthcare Improvement white paper about joy in work indicates that like burnout, lack of joy can lead to lower levels of staff engagement, customer (patient) experience, productivity, and increased risk of accidents.2 These all significantly affect organizations ’ financial bottom line.
Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: In My Opinion Source Type: research