Healthcare Provider Burnout
7+ Years Experience working in hospital systems
Between staffing shortages, safety concerns, insurance hold-ups, and unmanageable caseloads, working in modern healthcare can feel all-consuming.
There's a special type of frustration that comes from loving to help others, making a career of it, and then feeling like you can’t do it anymore. When things go well, it's easy to remember why we do the work! When things don’t, we wonder for the ten-millionth time, "Why do I do this, again?"
Hopefully, we learn to build flexibility and resiliency from the moments that don't go well. If we're extra lucky, we have excellent colleagues to help share the load. But, those lessons are a lot harder to find when it feels like you’re swimming upstream most days at work.
Sound like a "normal" day?
- Medical residents struggling with the “hidden curriculum” of exhaustion while still taking classes.
- Nurses & floor staff working on understaffed units where they’re asked to compromise safety and quality of care.
- Social Workers & care managers bridging the ever-widening gap between client needs and a shrinking resource pool.
What Healthcare Burnout Looks like
- Mental & Physical Exhaustion
- Worsening feelings of hopelessness and being trapped
- Increased apathy
- Atypical feelings of frustration or anxiety when interacting with patients.
- Increased dissatisfaction between staff and management
- A general decline in professional and personal confidence
