Resource topic: Society and Culture
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Culture Survey

Healthcare organizations can use these survey assessment tools to raise staff awareness about patient safety, assess the current status of patient safety culture,...

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Conversation and Action Guide to Support Staff Well-Being and Joy in Work during and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

This resource is intended to help leaders guide conversations with colleagues to provide and elicit needed information and problem-solving to ensure staff...

Toolkit
Success Story: COMPASS Groups Rejuvenate Relationships and Reduce Burnout

Learn how COlleagues Meeting to Promote And Sustain Satisfaction (COMPASS) groups build a sense of community to reduce burnout and distress felt by isolated...

Toolkit
Preventing Physician Suicide: Identify and Support At-Risk Physicians

Although the information in this toolkit may be applicable to other clinical team members, the focus is on physicians' vulnerability and treatment needs. Taking...

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“What Matters to You” Conversation Guide for Improving Joy in Work

As part of an organization's efforts to improve joy in work, the guide assists senior leaders in engaging in effective, meaningful conversations with colleagues to...

Toolkit
Physician Well-being 2.0: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

This perspective summarizes the historical phase of this journey (the “era of distress”), the current state (Well-being 1.0), and the early contours of the next...

Article
We Don’t Need Self-Care; We Need Boundaries

This op-ed from a female physician talks about the "faux self care" advice that women in medicine receive when they are burnt out. Women in medicine are often told...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
Medical Training Programs Need to Care About Physician Burnout. Should the Rest of Us?

In this opinion article, Timothy Hoff discusses his thoughts on who's to blame in the rising rates of physician burnout. He points out how this growing problem has...

Article
How Gratitude Can Reduce Burnout in Health Care

This article published in Greater Good Magazine discusses healthcare systems turning to gratitude as remedy to increasing rates of burnout amongst physicians....

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Returning to the Sacred Patient-Physician Relationship

In this blog post by epileptologist Virginia Thornley, she describes the importance of returning to the sacred traditional relationship between a patient and...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication