Six Environmental Controls to Reduce Healthcare Worker Stress During COVID
Frontline healthcare workers face enormous amounts of stress, and burnout is common. Here are six ways you can facilitate emotional wellbeing for your healthcare workers—just by rethinking the environment they work in.
Healthcare workers are normally prone to burnout and stress with long hours, difficult work situations and patients and high job expectations. During the coronavirus pandemic, those stressors are worsened with concern about the virus, concern about their own health or their families’, grief over watching patients die and anxiety over resources and PPE.
In fact, these issues are increasing healthcare provider stress and harming their mental health, said one Forbes article, as some begin to show symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2019, a survey reported that fifteen percent of nurses reported feelings of burnout—which can decrease work performance and increase risk of errors.
While there are a number of management and team-building ways you can help employees to decrease burnout, there are a number of environmental changes that you can implement to boost employee resilience. Mindfulness micro practices—like small breaks and a variety of respite spaces in which to take them—can mitigate stress.
Here are six environmental controls to implement for your healthcare workers, from Forbes:
Rethink the Break Room
Taking breaks is very important for healthcare worker health, but many may be reluctant to take them. When caregivers do take breaks, though, the environment needs to be optimal for decompression, support and restoration.
"six" - Google News
July 10, 2020 at 02:37PM
https://ift.tt/3gNdzhU
Six Environmental Controls to Reduce Healthcare Worker Stress During COVID - Occupational Health and Safety
"six" - Google News
https://ift.tt/3dcBbL9
https://ift.tt/2Wis8la
No comments:
Post a Comment