Épuisement professionnel

Effects of interventions implemented by occupational health professionals to prevent work-related stress complaints: a systematic review

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Source : Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Les plaintes liées au stress au travail constituent un problème sociétal croissant. Les professionnels de la santé au travail jouent souvent un rôle clé dans sa prévention. Cependant, peu d’études fournissent une vue d’ensemble des interventions préventives et de leur efficacité. L’objectif de cette revue systématique était donc de résumer les preuves de l’efficacité des interventions menées par les professionnels de la santé au travail pour prévenir les plaintes liées au stress au travail.

Burnout, stress traumatique secondaire et détresse psychologique chez les intervenant(e)s et les gestionnaires dans le milieu communautaire au Québec. Portrait de la situation pendant la pandémie de la COVID-19

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Source : Santé mentale au Québec.
Cet article s’intéresse aux difficultés émotionnelles vécues par les intervenant(e)s et les gestionnaires oeuvrant dans 3 regroupements d’organisations communautaires (santé mentale, itinérance et pour personnes handicapées) durant la pandémie de la COVID-19 au Québec. Plus spécifiquement, nous documentons les manifestions, parfois concomitantes, de burnout, de stress traumatique secondaire et de détresse psychologique rapportées.

Resilience and burnout of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic

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Source : British Journal of Nursing.
L’objectif de cette étude était d’évaluer l’iimpact des changements et des défis biopsychosociaux reliés à la pandémie en explorant spécifiquement l’impact sur et la relation entre la résilience du personnel de soins et l’épuisement professionnel.

Healing the Heart of Healthcare

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Source : JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration.
Healthcare workers continue to work without fully processing the stress of the pandemic on their overall health. Outcomes of stress include workplace burnout, low morale, and an increase in suicide rates. At Huntington Hospital, a need was identified to give caregivers an opportunity to grieve and process their experiences. Healing the Heart of Healthcare was a formal intervention that provided acknowledgment of trauma and reinstated a sense of hope to the profession. The activities in this program may be duplicated in other celebrations such as Nurses Day recognition.

Vital Signs: Health Worker-Perceived Working Conditions and Symptoms of Poor Mental Health – Quality of Worklife Survey, United States, 2018-2022

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Source : MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report.
Health workers faced overwhelming demands and experienced crisis levels of burnout before the COVID-19 pandemic; the pandemic presented unique challenges that further impaired their mental health.

How Can Health Care Organizations Address Burnout? A Description of the Dr. Lorna Breen Act Grantees

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Source : American Journal of Public Health.
Burnout among health care workers has been rising for years and is associated with increased risk of job dissatisfaction, suicide, and poor patient outcomes.1–5 COVID-19 brought this issue to the forefront. By the end of 2021, more than 60% of physicians and advanced practice clinicians reported burnout, and in 2022, 45% of nurses reported feeling burned out, 51% emotionally drained, and 56% used up.6,7 In 2021, more than half of public health workers reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, and nearly a third reported an intention to leave their organization in the next year.

An Organizational Leadership Development Approach to Support Health Worker Mental Health

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Source : American Journal of Public Health.
Coming at a time when burnout rates were already high, the COVID-19 pandemic physically and mentally further stressed our nation’s health care workforce, leading to record levels of burnout, moral distress, and moral injury. In response, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released an advisory on building a thriving health workforce in 2022 with the specific aim of targeting health worker burnout to improve health and well-being and strengthen the nation’s public health infrastructure. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said, “We owe all health workers—from doctors to hospital custodial staff—an enormous debt. And as we can clearly see and hear throughout this Surgeon General’s Advisory, they’re telling us what our gratitude needs to look like: real support and systemic change that allows them to continue serving to the best of their abilities.”

Examining the Nurse Manager Practice Environment Effects on Burnout: Results of a Cross-sectional Multisite Study

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Source : JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration.
This study examined the relationships between the dimensions of the nurse manager practice environment and burnout. Understanding the degree to which their practice environment characteristics impact their level of burnout is important to nursing manager retention.

AJPH Highlights Health Worker Mental Health

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Source : CDC
The American Journal of Public Health recently published a special supplement with 15 articles focusing on health worker mental health. This special issue of the journal was sponsored and edited by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and stems from the health worker mental health initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIOSH. Research indicates health workers experience high levels of physical injury, harassment, stress, and burnout and many health workers intend to leave their positions or the field altogether. Protecting and supporting health worker mental health has important implications for the nation’s health system and our public health infrastructure.