HealthsystemCIO.com March 27, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, health systems are becoming more and more overwhelmed by the number of infected people, which is quickly surpassing health systems’ capacities for treatment. The current pandemic is also exacerbating an already prevalent issue within healthcare: burnout.
The Arch Collaborative has found that about 28 percent of providers and 25 percent of nurses report burnout. These numbers are concerning, not only because burnout impacts people’s ability to deliver care; it also because it increases cost and turnover.
It is important for health systems to tackle all the issues that lead to burnout. As part of our survey, we asked clinicians to indicate what they felt drove their burnout. The top three reasons they...