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- Clinician burnout remains prevalent, exacerbated by factors such as inadequate staffing, a lack of organizational support, devaluation, and poor interpersonal relations. Amidst provider shortages, the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce is expanding, paralleling high rates of burnout. This study,…
- Burnout is attributed to negative work environments and threatens patient and clinician safety. Psychological safety is the perception that the work environment is safe for interpersonal risk-taking and may offer insight into the relationship between the work environment and burnout. In this…
- The US health system is burdened by rising costs, workforce shortages, and unremitting burnout. Well-being interventions have emerged in response, yet data suggest that the work environment is the problem. Nurse practitioner (NP) burnout is associated with structural and relational factors in the…
- Moral injury is lasting psychological and spiritual distress that stems from violating one’s values or feeling betrayed by a trusted institution or authority. Moral injury is associated with post-traumatic stress (PTSD), depression, anxiety, substance use, functional impairments, and suicide risk.…
- Important health workforce research that we undertake here is part of a national effort to monitor and plan for the health care needs of US residents. The UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care (UCSF HWRC), housed at Healthforce Center, is a dynamic hub of policy-oriented research…
- Background: The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly affected health care workers, both physically and psychologically, by increasing their workload and stress. This may also have increased their risk of occupational injuries. This study analyzed workers' compensation (WC) claims among California…
- Most people’s perspective of health care carries an expectation that patients will be treated with kindness and empathy by health care workers. However as rates of burnout among workers rise, empathy and patience are in shorter supply. What can organizations do to support their staff to deliver…
- Previous research has documented shortages of personal care aides who provide Medicaid home and community-based services, but there are few detailed geographic data to determine the areas of greatest need and assess the availability of personal care aides nationwide. Using 2013–17 data from the…
- The objective of this pilot study is to evaluate the attitudes and self-efficacy of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Conference Leaders (CLs) after completing the Well-being Promotion (WelPro) training program developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of…
- Health systems are uniquely positioned to advance health equity in communities by ensuring that workers are well, resilient, and equipped to deliver high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how work environments in health systems affects the well-being of workers, whose capacity to…
- The California Improvement Network is a community of health care professionals committed to identifying and spreading better ideas for care delivery. The summer 2021 issue of CIN Connections contains strategies and reflections from health care leaders as they wrestle with increased levels of…
- The purpose of this systematic review is to determine the frequency of violent or aggressive behaviour towards healthcare workers in inpatient psychiatric settings in the United States. To achieve this aim, five databases were searched to find English-language quantitative studies reporting…
- The California Improvement Network’s report, CIN Connections: Healing the Healers, features actionable information to tackle provider burnout and promote well-being at health care organizations. It includes an interview with Mickey Trockel, MD, PhD, from Stanford Medicine WellMD Center,…
- AIM: To examine whether there were improvements in the satisfaction of hospital-employed registered nurses (RNs) in the mid-2000s. BACKGROUND: In recent years, many hospitals have made efforts to improve workplace characteristics, in order to improve nurse satisfaction and retention. There has…
- Research shows that unions have some effect on nurse wages, for example a modest effect on the wage structure by eliminating race gaps on one hand, but giving lower premiums for experience.
- In 1999, California passed the first legislation in the United States to establish minimum staffing levels for licensed nurses in hospitals. Implementation of the regulation began in 2004. This article examines whether nurses who work in hospitals in California have perceived improvements in their…