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Amy Sumler
Background: Health specialists take care of us, but who takes care of them? These professionals are the most vulnerable to the increasingly common syndrome known as burnout. Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as a result of chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.
The app, available for iOS and Android, offers simple strategies to tackle job-related stress and burnout. The app gives users 10-minute activities they can do once a day, including breathing, physical activity, self-care and visualization. Activities are designed to help educators decompress and reenergize.
Use BanterBot to start conversations inside Slack to address the "boredom" part of your team's burnout. BanterBot comes chock-full of topics to choose from, but also let's you create a bunch of your own (if you're feeling up to it). The goal is to ultimately build more camaraderie amongst your employees and teammates.
Wrapping what we've learned up, there are plenty of quick and easy to install Slack apps that you can install today to address burnout, both individually and across your team. I highly recommend trying one of the tools above - there's very little risk and time you need to take to get started. If you find a tool on the Slack app store that you feel addresses burnout, we'd love to hear about it.
Our burnout program will give you a better understanding of why you're burned out, how to address your symptoms of burnout, and how to prevent a period of burnout from happening again in the future. You'll learn evidence-based practices from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) specifically designed for the burned-out brain and body.
Stress, depression and burnout share many similar characteristics, and of course, some people experience all three. But while burnout can lead to depression and vice versa, treating burnout appropriately requires differentiating it from similar psychological challenges.
While burnout can affect all areas of our life, it arises from work-related stress. Depression, on the other hand, may include negative thoughts that begin outside the workplace, low self-esteem, or suicidal ideation, none of which is typically related to burnout.
Type A personalities with perfectionist tendencies often take on too many responsibilities and are less likely to delegate tasks. Excessive ambition or fear of failure can lead to overworking, and may contribute to a lack of self-care. De-prioritizing what truly nourishes us can lead to future burnout.
While rates of burnout have been on the rise for several decades, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have exacerbated burnout among people from all different professions. This is largely because the line between our personal lives and our work lives became increasingly blurred, as many of us turned to remote work environments during lockdown.
Physical symptoms often become more intense in this stage. For instance, we might experience chronic headaches, stomach issues, or gastrointestinal problems. Our burnout might also make itself known through these symptoms:
For instance, employees who feel they are treated unfairly at work are 2.3 times more likely to experience a high level of burnout. Conversely, employees who feel strongly supported are 70% less likely to experience burnout symptoms on a regular basis.
Physical symptoms of burnout include fatigue, difficulty sleeping, recurring headaches, or gastrointestinal problems. Emotional symptoms include lack of motivation, negative outlook on your job and life, and an overall feeling of dissatisfaction. Behavioral symptoms include social isolation, shirking your responsibilities, and work-related anger outbursts.
For providers, we now have the same accessibility of a tool that can help us implement self-care practices in our day. We understand the potential consequences of difficulty in managing stressors and the buildup for compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress, in addition to the negative impact it can have on our personal and professional lives. For many, finding the time for regular self-care through such routines as meditation, yoga, exercise, proper diet, continuing education, or socializing can be difficult to maintain. With a recent development of the Provider Resilience Mobile Application, providers may find another option of implementing and sustaining self-care practices.
Having multiple options for self-care may further help to support providers in sustaining their resilience to continue to service their patients. Providers now have an easy to use app that can help increase resilience by improving levels of burnout and compassion satisfaction. When it may not be as convenient to venture outdoors or be device free, the Provider Resilience app is one more tool among the many that providers can implement into their day. These technological advances are an exciting benefit that will continue to change how we practice both our clinical and self-care tools.
Wood, A.E., Prins, A., Brush, N.E., Hsia, J.F., Bourn, L.E., Earley, M.D., Walser, R.D., Ruzek, J. (2017). Reduction of burnout in mental health care providers using the Provider Resilience Mobile Application. Community Mental Health Journal (53), 452-459.
Liz, who be well known to St Emyn's audiences, has just completed her PhD on "Understanding the risk and protective factors for burnout and wellbeing of staff working in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: PICU staff wellbeing" and has an unrivalled real world and evidence based experience of what these terms really mean.
In this first in a special series Liz goes into depth describing not only what burnout is, but how it can be measured (and the limitations of this) and most importantly how this is a system issue and not a diagnosis.
What costs would you pay to reduce burnout? Dan and Akin discuss research looking into the possibility of combating stress and emotional exhaustion by encouraging employees create and use self-reflective job titles.
- Research Paper: 'Job Titles as Identity Badges: How Self-Reflective Titles Can Reduce Emotional Exhaustion' by Adam Grant, Justin Berg and Dan Cable