Personal Care is Patient Care
A negative work environment can be quite taxing on new practitioners in pharmacy. How do you know if your work environment is causing significant grief or angst? If aspects of your workplace are causing disruptions in the rest of your life, then you may be negatively affected by your work environment. However, you may not be the only one suffering. As health care professionals, our patients are directly affected by our behaviors. Burnout due to a negative work environment leads to lower quality of care, more medication errors, and lower patient satisfaction. You must assess the root cause of your negative work environment. Maybe you took on too large of a workload. Maybe you’re experiencing problems with co-workers. Maybe you feel unappreciated by leadership. There could be one or several aspects causing a negative work environment. You should consider remedying the problem. Patient and provider satisfaction have been positively impacted by decreasing workload and increasing teamwork. Consider making changes to your practice for your patients and you. It can be hard to help others if you cannot help yourself. You must make your wellness a priority. Incorporation of wellness into your workplace will help alleviate negativity, improve your lifestyle, and improve the quality of care of your patients.
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The upcoming posts this week (as well as additional posts which will be posted throughout Mental Health Awareness Month (May) by Maggie Kronz, Daniel Pons, and Bethany Withycombe) were created by ASHP New Practitioner’s Forum CDAG to provide you with helpful resources to improve your mental health and well-being. Previous topics include: Positive psychology and how this can be applied to your personal and professional life to increase your levels of happiness and well-being, managing anxiety and depression, identifying your personal values and how to incorporate these values into your career to avoid burnout, and imposter syndrome and how it may be affecting your mental wellness.. We hope you find these posts beneficial and give you a good starting point to help you be well!
References:
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Kapinos KA, Fitzgerald P, Greer N, et al. The Effect of Working Conditions on Patient Care: A Systematic Review. Washington, DC: Department of Veterans Affairs: 2012. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK114447/