Search Tag: work-life balance
2024 02 Jun
Longer working hours, the expectation of being constantly “on,” and blurred boundaries between work and personal life are causing workplace stress to spill over into home life. This negative spillover adversely affects mental health, family relationships, work productivity, and job satisfaction. This “epidemic” of work-life imbalance raises concerns...Read more
2024 13 Mar
Over the past few years, the U.S. healthcare system has faced significant challenges, including those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as financial strains, supply chain disruptions, staffing shortages, and limitations on clinical services. These issues, compounded by inflation-related economic concerns, have deeply affected both healthcare...Read more
2024 13 Mar
Over the past few years, the U.S. healthcare system has faced significant challenges, including those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as financial strains, supply chain disruptions, staffing shortages, and limitations on clinical services. These issues, compounded by inflation-related economic concerns, have deeply affected both healthcare...Read more
2024 13 Mar
Over the past few years, the U.S. healthcare system has faced significant challenges, including those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as financial strains, supply chain disruptions, staffing shortages, and limitations on clinical services. These issues, compounded by inflation-related economic concerns, have deeply affected both healthcare...Read more
2023 24 Dec
It can be easy to feel the call back to the university. After all, there are many interesting things in the world, and if you're hoping to expand your horizon, qualifications, or career potential, there's little better than a degree. While location is a minimal barrier to entry due to faculties like the University of Canberra offering...Read more
2019 23 Dec
For academics across the world, ‘working hours’ vary greatly, and in China many tend to work after hours, shows a recent study published in the Christmas edition of the BMJ. You may also like: EHMA 2020 Annual Conference: Call for Abstracts There is anecdotal evidence that research and publishing demand academics and medical students...Read more
2017 10 Mar
Key opinion leaders (KOL) in the ICU field are often coming up with fantastic tips for becoming a better leader or clinician. We decided to share our top three with you: 1. Find/Encourage a Balance Balance is recommended in a variety of areas in life, and so it is with clinical practice too. It’s critical for a clinician to assess the criteria of...Read more
2015 28 Aug
Stanford Hospital has implemented an innovative "time-banking" programme intended to prevent burnout amongst its emergency room physicians. Its Department of Emergency Medicine now provides physicians with meals, housecleaning and an array of other services — babysitting, elder care, movie tickets, handyman services, speech training and more...Read more