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"The role of healthcare workers in taking care of all of us is absolutely vital to our society, to our economy, and to our culture. But our healthcare workforce needs to feel supported, too,"- John Howard, MD, Director of NIOSH
The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...
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Robert A. Bonakdar, MD, FAAFP, DAAPM Director of Pain Management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, CA, discusses the importance of clinicians taking breaks or "pauses" throughout their busy schedules. In this expert opinion video, Dr. Bonakdar explains what taking a "pause"...
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The Journal of Pain Research reports that not only the patients in the ICU are in pain. A cross-sectional study of 356 people—including nurses, doctors, and other workers—in a tertiary hospital in China showed high percentages of people in pain:
- ICU nurses: 72%
- ICU doctors: 64%
- ICU workers...
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A study published in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare details the importance of nature based interventions (NBI) as applied to 11 females, aged 38 to 57, whose capacity to work in the healthcare field was lowered due to stress. The interventions included time spent in forests, parks, and...
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A cross-sectional data study involving 22,273 RNs, over 550 hospitals, and data from more than 1.4 million patients sought to determine “whether involving more nurse practitioners (NPs) in inpatient care produces better outcomes…” The answer is a resounding YES. Among the findings comparing...
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Practitioners are experiencing burnout at an alarming rate. Administrative burden is part of the problem. “Healthcare providers didn’t become healthcare providers to do paperwork and to sit at a keyboard.” But how can it be made better? Dr. Kevin Zacharoff, a clinical instructor and course director...