Understanding and Preventing Burnout: Improving Health Care Outcomes Course
Understanding and Preventing Burnout: Improving Health Care Outcomes Course is organized by OptumHealth Education (OHE).
Activity opens: 03/23/2021
Activity expires: 03/23/2024
Target Audience:
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians, psychologists, social workers and other HCPs who are interested in increasing their well-being and improving health care outcomes.
Description:
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion that can be caused by excessive and prolonged stress. In the last decade, it has become apparent that burnout among health care professionals (HCPs) is increasing. Health care has experienced major challenges in long working hours, high and sometimes unsustainable productivity goals and greater overall difficulty in maintaining work-life balance; all of these are precursors of HCP burnout. This activity will discuss contributing factors to burnout, its impact on the health and well-being of HCPs and their patients, interventions to decrease overall stress and how burnout can influence patient care and health care outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Explain how depression, anxiety and burnout syndrome in HCPs influence the care provided to patients.
• Discuss the impact of HCP burnout on health, patient care, outcomes and the health care system, as well as the impact on personal lives including relationships and parenting.
• Explore the contributing factors and the science behind HCP burnout.
• Describe the risk factors associated with provider burnout including work factors, personal characteristics and organizational factors as well as the profound impact of sleep and exercise on restoration of cognitive capability.
• Explore interventions, such as mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) mobile apps, designed to support the mental health needs of HCPs and improve team performance by decreasing overall stress.