In Nursing, ‘Joy’ and ‘Work’ Are Not Mutually Exclusive
No shortage of workplace pressures.
Photo by Mark Thomas/Science Photo Library.
In virtually any health care setting today, nurses are under pressure to increase efficiencies, improve quality, and cut costs. The nonstop pressure to always do better comes in the midst of staff shortages, repeated changes in clinical protocols, struggles with EHRs that are incompatible with our workflow, and even concerns for our own physical safety. It’s no surprise that nursing turnover rates are increasing.
With all of this raining down on our heads, is it really possible to experience joy at work?
In “Finding Joy in the Workplace” in this month’s issue (free until May 7), Rose Sherman and Cynthia Blum tell us that it is. And, they argue, the work experience of nurses influences the quality of their interactions with patients:
If clinicians don’t feel hope, confidence, and psychological safety in their work, they can’t in turn offer these to their patients.
An evidence-based framework for improving joy.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is known to most of us as an organization that focuses on patient safety issues like CLABSIs, surgical site infections, falls, and medication errors. But increasingly concerned about clinician burnout (which is, after all, a patient safety […]
