The resignation of the director-general of health and two of his deputies highlights the risk of burnout during the pandemic. What can employers do to help overwhelmed workers?
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Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Making daily time to connect with their children is an important way of nurturing family experiences and relationships and to find restoration.
Devotion to work can lead to burnout.
Although demanding, disruptive and violent patients are a major contributor to physician burnout, solutions to address this increasing problem are not a priority.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
The health care system is hemorrhaging medical lab workers, in part because of COVID-19 infections and also because of burnout, low wages and better opportunities elsewhere.
Workplaces, in addition to providing critical organizational resources, can encourage employees to undertake a voluntary workplace well-being streak, or employees can commit to their own.
Research shows that people with more flow in their lives had a higher sense of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists are beginning to explore what happens in the brain during flow.
Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
Black Friday, Christmas, and other ‘shopping events’ take a toll on the temporary workers hired to get purchases to consumers.
The quality of grit – passion and sustained persistence – is a useful predictor of burnout and exhaustion for doctors and maybe the rest of us too.
Long-term solutions to the nursing shortage call for changes that value nurses and offer them a safe place to work.
Health concerns, being older than 55 and having to switch to online or hybrid lessons were all factors that made some teachers want to quit or retire.
Lockdowns can exacerbate existing mental illness, but people without a history of mental illness can also find themselves feeling low, unmotivated and lacking a sense of purpose.
Rates of burnout have increased alarmingly among health-care workers during the pandemic. Unless the system provides more support to its already depleted workforce, staff shortages may get worse.
Nurses and healthcare workers will need more support in the longer term to deal with the considerable effect COVID-19 has had on mental health and wellbeing.
Feeling exhausted, unable to concentrate and wanting to withdraw and disconnect from the world and those around you? You could be heading towards burnout.
Burnout as the result of workplace stress has big implications for employers. Occupational health and safety standards require employers to protect both the physical and mental health of workers.
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Health, The Open University
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Business psychologist, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Officer, UNSW School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Florida
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Associate Director of the Office for Education Policy, University of Arkansas
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Saint Louis University
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Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Education and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor of Education, Kansas State University
