Tag: burnout
Systemic disempowerment in care-delivery organisations
Today I explore the term ‘systemic disempowerment‘ (SD) as pertains to large health and social care services. Health services are without doubt inseparably intertwined with social care services. The concept of SD moves beyond ideas of learned helplessness, which is so often thrown around. The concept of SD is far wider and deeper as this exploration will show. There is no easy way to make this blog readable in the desirable 30 second read; now widely popular among social mediaRead More …
Reading the records
The delivery of healthcare is complex business. Often times records are compiled by large numbers of people in teams or extension of teams about a single patient. The vast majority of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are text-based. Understanding a patient’s condition(s) and needs from records is often demanding of time, effort and concentration. Overall, both the delivery of healthcare and the management of health records are complex tasks, necessitating a systematic approach, efficient communication, and the use of advanced toolsRead More …
Caring explored
I was thinking about caring in the context of healthcare (only) for this exploration. There are some elements of care that involve providing services – for example diagnostics, investigations, nursing care, medical procedures and so on. But I needed to look deeper than that. I did not really want to see care as just services and jobs. Anybody could find a list of things that carers need to do to provide care e.g. risk assessments, filling in forms, taking pulseRead More …
Dealing with burnout
Burnout is a psychological syndrome that results from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. One of the first issues is ‘stress’. Not everybody feels it in the same way. Not all stress is bad. People have difficulty being aware when they are under abnormal stress. Then there is the problem of ‘unusual chronic stress’, which is long term high levels of stress that may be just under what may be considered ‘abnormal’. For example, if you’re ‘constantlyRead More …