Assessing compliance with the LSC has always been a tricky proposition, since a deficiency that is obvious to one individual might not be so obvious to another, based on surveyors’ different levels of knowledge.
On March 18, the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety (NIOSH) and the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation released the Impact Wellbeing guide as part of a federal campaign to take action on healthcare worker burnout. The guiding principles of the document are building trust...
Should physicians with possible mental health issues be required to participate in specialized physician health programs? What programs are out there? What industry developments can medical staffs follow? What isn’t helping physicians and what is?
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), healthcare workers are increasingly reporting workplace harassment, burnout, and poor mental health. Recently, NIOSH teamed with Total Worker Health Centers and advocates in the industry to create Impact Wellbeing in...
Healthcare workers are no strangers to burnout and suicide as many suffer from emotional exhaustion and mental and physical stress due to the demanding nature of their job, including long working hours, high-stress environments, and death in extreme cases.
Healthcare workers are no strangers to burnout and suicide as many suffer from emotional exhaustion and mental and physical stress due to the demanding nature of their job, including long working hours, high-stress environments, and death in extreme cases.
During the period dubbed “The Great Resignation,” millions of U.S. workers quit their jobs, including more than 145,000 healthcare professionals, according to a report from Definitive...
Substance abuse and addiction are some of humanity’s oldest public health challenges. Much has been learned about the causes and treatment of substance abuse in the 8,000 years since Sumerians wrote opium prescriptions on clay tablets, and alcoholic beverages were brewed in the Yellow River...
“One thing behavioral healthcare can do is get rid of unnecessary rules—rules that have been developed for staff convenience or organizational reasons like cost, rather than for patient comfort and care,” says Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, ICADC, a licensed mental health...