Physician Burnout: Common Causes, Negative Effects, and Smart Solutions

October 13, 2021October 14, 2021Employee Engagement, Healthy Living, M3-Patient Experience, Office Culture, Provider Stress, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Service Recovery

What is Burnout? Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. Though it’s most often caused by problems at work, it can also appear in other areas of life, such Read More

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How to Turn Conflict into an Opportunity for Improvement

May 20, 2021Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Office Culture, Practice Management, Provider Stress, Relationships, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Turning Conflict into an Opportunity for Improvement Make a Plan As we made clear in the last two Thinking Thursday TIPs, the world of healthcare is undergoing a major shift from fee-for-service care to value-based care. As healthcare facilities Read More

How the Patient-provider Encounter Drives Patient Satisfaction

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021Communication, Employee Engagement, Patient Satisfaction, Practice Management, Provider Stress, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Understanding Physicians in Order to Boost Patient Satisfaction A-Day-in-the-Life: We previously discussed the importance of your key players (physicians) in creating a culture within your healthcare facility that leads to improved patient satisfaction. There’s no doubt about it – patients’ Read More

How to Remain Calm, Productive and Focused as a Healthcare Worker

April 1, 2021COVID-19, Healthy Living, Office Culture, Practice Management, Provider Stress, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Crisis Fatigue No doubt about it, the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic has far exceeded our expectations, and many of us have been living in a prolonged state of stress. Reflect back on the beginning of the pandemic, over one Read More

How to Manage Sleep Loss Due to Prolonged Elevated Stress Levels

March 26, 2021Healthy Living, Office Culture, Practice Management, Provider Stress, Relationships, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Prolonged Stress: A Secondary Crisis If you’ve been following our weekly blogs you’ve probably noticed a reoccurring theme. Judging by the growing statistics and even just within the feedback from our own readers, the topic of stress is a significant Read More

How to Manage Weight Gain Due to Prolonged Elevated Stress Levels

March 18, 2021COVID-19, Healthy Living, Office Culture, Provider Stress, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Where Were You? At the risk of letting my southern roots show, have you heard the song, “Where Were You,” by Alan Jackson? The lyrics transport listeners back to the moment the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001. “Where Read More

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How to Effectively Identify and Manage Healthcare Related Workplace Stress

March 5, 2021Employee Engagement, Leadership, Office Culture, Practice Management, Provider Stress, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Thinking Thursdays TIPs Providing Healthcare is Challenging Enough Without Workplace Stress Workplace Stress Defined Most of us love a good challenge – that victorious high you feel after conquering a seemingly impossible task through the implementation of a plan and Read More

Simple Ways Healthcare Workers can Manage Elevated Stress Levels

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021Employee Engagement, Future of Healthcare, Leadership, Office Culture, Provider Stress, Self Care, Thinking Thursdays TIPs

Self-Sacrificing According to the 2020 Medical Economics Physician Burnout Survey, ninety-one percent of doctors say they have felt burn out from practicing medicine at some point in their career. (1) The job of a healthcare professional is naturally self-sacrificing, but Read More

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