If you are a health care worker or leading a health care organization, we have well-being resources for you.
The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience offers this collection of resources that highlight strategies and tools that health care leaders and workers can use across practice settings to take action toward decreasing burnout and improving clinician well-being.
Resources are organized into six essential elements, based on Organizational Evidence-Based and Promising Best Practices for Clinician Well-Being.
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Click to expand any of the six essential elements below, which include resources that will help you and your organization on the journey to improve health care worker well-being.
Resources to Advance Organizational Commitment
Organizational commitment involves visible actions and investments to show that a systematic approach to well-being is being undertaken. The following resources include generalized playbooks and multidisciplinary frameworks that leaders and health care workers can use to change local culture and establish basic principles that can reduce burnout and promote well-being.
Resources:
Toolkits to get started
Creating the Organizational Foundation for Joy in Medicine
Establishing a Chief Wellness Officer Position
Chief Wellness Officer Roadmap
Toolkits with case examples
Success Story: Laying the Groundwork for a Chief Wellness Officer at ChristianaCare
The Chief Wellness Officer Journey at ChristianaCare
How the Center for WorkLife Well-Being is Supporting Caregivers During COVID-19
Workplace Wellness Champions: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Programming
Courses and tools for continuous learning
Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course
Advancing Health Systems Podcast Collection
Recognition and commitment programs
Charter on Physician Well-Being
Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program
Tools to build the case for organizational commitment
Call to Action: Improving Clinician Well-Being and Patient Care and Safety
Making the Case for a Chief Wellness Officer in America’s Health System: a Call to Action
Organizational Evidence Based and Promising Practices for Improving Clinician Well-Being
A Guide to Promoting Health Care Workforce Well-Being During and After the Pandemic
Framework for Improving Joy in Work
Wellness with COVID: Contagious Strategies to Promote Pharmacy Well-Being
Resources to Strengthen Leadership Behaviors
Executive leaders drive key decisions on managing staff and resources, and health care workers can champion healthy environments for their care teams and their patients. The following resources include guidance to shape leaders at all levels, as well as tools to hold them accountable.
Resources:
Toolkits for management
Leading Through Crisis: A Resource Compendium for Nurse Leaders
Well-Being Playbook: A Guide for Hospital and Health System Leaders
Grief Leadership: Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy
Establishing a Chief Wellness Officer Position
Chief Wellness Officer Roadmap
Creating the Organizational Foundation for Joy in Medicine
Caring for the Healthcare Workforce During Crisis: Creating a Resilient Organization
Appreciative Inquiry Principles: Ask “What Went Well” to Foster Positive Organizational Culture
Toolkits for team building
Cultivating Leadership: Measure and Assess Leader Behaviors to Improve Professional Well-Being
Building Bridges Between Practicing Physicians and Administrators
Journal commentaries
Feasibility of a “Network of Champions” in Implementing a Program to Address Physician Well-Being
Physician Well-Being 2.0: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Preventing a Parallel Pandemic- A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being
Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce
A Call to Action: Align Well-Being and Antiracism Strategies
Instructional Videos
Physician Wellness: A Self and System Imperative in a Value Based Model
Webinar: Reframing Burnout through Human Factors: Integrating Well-Being and Patient Safety
Resources to Conduct Workplace Assessment
Assessment is essential to understanding the extent and severity of burnout, and the well-being of the members of any workforce. The following resources include tools to assess the current status of the workplace, in order to understand the baseline that an organization can build on to establish well-being and burnout guidelines. These assessment tools are validated for use among health care workers.
Resources:
Instruments to measure burnout
The Stanford Model of Professional Fulfillment
Instruments to assess antecedents of well-being
AACN Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Culture Survey
Matriculating Student Questionnaire
NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WELLBQ)
Standards for Establishing and Sustaining a Healthy Work Environment
Wellness Culture and Environment Support Scale
Acute Care Self Assessment of Organizational Culture
Instruments to assess financial impacts of burnout
Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States
Organizational Cost of Physician Burnout
Evaluating the Costs of Burnout Attributed Turnover
Discussion articles and podcasts
Establishing Crosswalks Between Common Measures of Burnout in US Physicians
A Pragmatic Approach for Organizations to Measure Health Care Professional Well-Being
Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series: COVID-19 Two-Year Impact Assessment
Survey
Metrics for Assessing Physician Activity Using Electronic Health Record Log Data
Measuring Effectiveness of Burnout Prevention Strategies
Supporting Well-Being Through the Implementation of Education and a Relaxing Retreat Space
Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Wellness Culture and Environment Support Scale
Advancing Health Systems Podcast: Measuring the Effectiveness of Burnout Prevention Strategies
Resources to Examine Policies and Practices
Health care workers may experience moral distress when the policies and practices of their organization conflict with their professional commitment to patient care and ability to do their work. A resilient organization will periodically reassess its policies and practices and eliminate those that are no longer relevant or no longer required. The following resources are designed to help organizations re-examine their current policies and eliminate those that are irrelevant or unnecessary.
Resources:
Online toolkits
Journal articles
Practice and Policy Reset Post-COVID: Reversion, Transition, or Transformation?
Policy Strategies for Addressing Current Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce
Initiatives
25 by 5 Initiative to Reduce Documentation Burden on U.S. Clinicians by 75% by 2025
Resources to Enhance Workplace Efficiency
Workplace efficiency embodies practices that are geared toward facilitating and streamlining staff duties while maintaining clinical excellence. The following resources include playbooks for improving care team efficiency.
Resources:
Online toolkits
Team Documentation: Improve Efficiency, Workflow, and Patient Care
Medical Assistant Professional Development: Enhance the Skills and Roles of the Care Team
Video Toolkit: AHA Team Training TeamSTEPPS
Case Studies
Case Study: HCA Nursing Documentation Streamlining
Case Study: Erlanger Health, Empowering the Team
Resources to Cultivate a Culture of Connection and Support
An organization can best support its health care workforce by giving people the ability to do their jobs and then allowing them to return safely home with time and emotional energy to engage in their personal lives with their family, friends, and community. The following resources offer mechanisms to provide peer and emotional support.
Resources:
Online toolkits
A Nurse’s Guide to Preventing Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout
“What Matters to You” Conversation Guide for Improving Joy in Work
Preventing Physician Suicide: Identify and Support At-Risk Physicians
Peer Support Programs for Physicians
Provider Well-Being for Behavioral Health Professionals
Success Story: COMPASS Groups Rejuvenate Relationships and Reduce Burnout
Case Study: Culture of Well-Being
How ChristianaCare Provides System-Wide Peer-to-Peer Support
Success Story: Ice Cream Rounds Are Meaningful Well-Being Groups for Residents and Fellows
Success Story: Care for the Caregiver Program Supports Peers and Organization Well-Being
Be Well: Preventing Physician Suicide
COVID-related resources
COVID-19: Stress and Coping Resources
American Psychiatric Nurses’ Association’s COVID Resources
Psychological PPE: Promote Health Care Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being
Well-Being Playbook 2.0: A COVID-19 Resource for Hospital and Health System Leaders
At the Heart of the Pandemic: Nursing Peer Support
Online communities and programs
The resources on this page do not necessarily represent the views of any one organization, the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and have not been subjected to the review procedures of, nor are they a product of, the National Academies. We are sharing this curated list based on the expert guidance of Collaborative members to serve as resources.
2022 Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package
A group of health care experts in collaboration with the NAM have identified evidence-based action items which health system executives can use to support the well-being of nurses, doctors, and other team members at the current stage of the pandemic. The Rescue Package is a first-of-its-kind list that prioritizes the five most critical actions that health systems leaders can take now to safeguard the emotional and psychological needs of healthcare workers.
The Rescue Package was developed in collaboration with the Clinician Well-Being Collaborative and is derived from this Resource Compendium.
