Stress, Burnout, and Performance
Concern for Healthcare Providers
Just like an elite athlete, physicians and other healthcare providers are highly susceptible to the detrimental effects of prolonged stress. Unmanaged stress is associated with burnout, which is characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion, depersonalization, and a decreased sense of personal accomplishment. These effects can lead to sub-optimal care.
Just like elite athletes, providers need to develop tools for managing their stress, so they can optimize performance and personal well-being. As a physician you give so much of yourself to provide quality care, often at the expense of your own personal health. You too need to engage in self-care, restoring yourself, so that you can perform at an elite level. Once restored you can regain your original sense of purpose and meaning that brought you to the profession. I would like to be a resource that helps you achieve that.
Signs of Burnout
Provider burnout is characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion, loss of the sense of accomplishment or meaning, and depersonalization or the objectifying patients. Each of these greatly impact the quality of your work life, personal health and well-being damage personal relationships and the delivery of quality care.
Outcomes Related to Burnout:
- Fractured patient relationships
- Compassion Fatigue
- Decreased Job satisfaction
- Decreased Physical and Psychological well-being
- Increased errors
- Prolonged stress
- Taking away from your ability to engage with you patients and deliver quality care
After medical errors, physicians have reported feeling upset, guilty, self-critical, depressed, and scared. Physicians also have reported that their job satisfaction, ability to sleep, relationships with colleagues, and self-worth were negatively affected.
Restoration
Sometimes is easy to lose sight of the significant contribution that you make to the greater good. It is my job to help you restore this mentality, re-engage empathy, and energize your purpose and vision for being a healthcare provider. In a private and confidential setting, I will teach you the skills to manage stress in the future, thus preventing burnout, improving your job satisfaction, renewing patient relationships, and optimizing your performance.
CONTACT ME HERE to set up an initial, free consultation.
Erik Gnagy, PhD, PGA
