J Bryan Sexton

Exhausted? 100,000 voices agree... Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During COVID-19 ja.ma/3DG7LWr via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork Want to do something about it? bit.ly/wellbduke

.@ValerieFoushee @senthomtillis @sentedbuddnc I urge you to fully fund cosponsor HR 7153/S 3679 to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which provides critical support and resources to address the mental health challenges that health workers face.

.@ValerieFoushee @senthomtillis @sentedbuddnc I urge you to fully fund and cosponsor HR 7153/S 3679 to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which provides critical support and resources to address the mental health challenges of health workers.

In this @JAMANetworkOpen podcast, hear from Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Bryan Sexton about: - The detriments of compromised #WellBeing - A bite-sized online well-being intervention ("WELL-B") - And the promising results of his recent WELL-B #RCT ow.ly/y67c50Tvh4m @DukeMedSchool

Bite-sized Intervention Boosts Health Worker Well-Being! After just 8 days, big decrease in burnout! Story: medpagetoday.com/hospitalbasedm… Article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Whew! Ok, what's next?

RCT: A 3-5h continuing education program (WELL-B) can help to improve well-being in health care workers, with >90% favorable ratings. ja.ma/3Tzr7DI

Bite-sized well-being for the weary... Grant funded, no cost, simple intervention. Most folks ask us for something that will help them as well as their colleagues, well... here it is: linkedin.com/posts/wellb_th…

@tjcjqps @DSTawfik @ProfitJochen As Exhaustion goes up (jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…) we need better local leadership (jointcommissionjournal.com/article/S1553-…): i.e., available, giving good/frequent/positive feedback. Foundational.

#jointcommissionjournal #Leadership behavior associations w/ domains of #safetyculture, engagement & #healthcare worker #wellbeing doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq… @DSTawfik #wellness #medtwitter @ProfitJochen @JBryanSexton1 #burnout #QI #patientsafety #hospital

@drjessigold @thanh_neville @healthpolicygrp Is it the shingle outside your office: It's me, Hi, I'm the therapist, It's me.

@thanh_neville @healthpolicygrp What is the psych version of a scrub cap?

6 of 6 well-being outcomes still better 1 year later! If you're still in healthcare, you deserve a wellbeing easy button! see: Effectiveness of a bite-sized web-based intervention to improve healthcare worker wellbeing: RCT of WISER frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #burnout #wellbeing

The Science of Simple Well-Being Essentials WELL-B links: enroll: bit.ly/wellbduke flyer: lnkd.in/d8wPN-pq 2 min intro video: lnkd.in/dGkdFhtm   WELL-B Essentials 2023 is an engaging, practical, evidence-based series of well-being s…lnkd.in/dV2jVukg

4,394 Michiganders tried WELL-B, and the results are in! You can try also: bit.ly/wellbduke 2 min intro: youtu.be/mmZHDVNBCLA

@BMJ_Qual_Saf @LawtonRebecca @EJThomas_safety Couldn't agree more - excellent infographic! Gotta have gas in the tank to do sustainable QI... ja.ma/3DG7LWr

Overcoming the ‘self-limiting’ nature of QI (bit.ly/3UGjOsE): can we improve the quality of patient care while caring for staff? @LawtonRebecca & @EJThomas_safety’s recommendations are summarised in the infographic👇 bit.ly/3SfoX94

@HelenBevan @shanesnow Leaders that promote it have teams with better safety and better well-being! The Psychological Safety Scale of the Safety,... : Journal of Patient Safety journals.lww.com/journalpatient…

Psychological safety: Safety is not the same as comfort. A leader's role is not to protect their team from discomfort. It’s to protect them from harm - and to help motivate them to push through the discomfort and harness it for growth: shorturl.at/RXZ34 By @shanesnow

3 burnout responses: 1) fix systems 2) help our suffering coworkers 3) 1&2: connect individuals with more of what is meaningful to them It's hard: ja.ma/3rpeBIl but there are options: bit.ly/wellbduke, hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/, jointcommissionjournal.com/article/S1553-…

@jacki_liddle @JAMANetworkOpen @JAMANetwork @SafeReliableHRO @JonBae01 @carrieadair @DukeIM @DukePsychiatry @DukeHSQ @DukeNews @ELM_Eckert @nkagetsu @ColinWestMDPhD There are bite-sized tools we can use to put some gas back in the tank: hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/

Exhausted? 100,000 voices agree... Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During COVID-19 ja.ma/3DG7LWr via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork Want to do something about it? bit.ly/wellbduke

@gabrieldane @ColinWestMDPhD *that moment you realize you might have to clean up an extraordinary mess you did not create* but it recurs...every...day a slog to be sure, but real progress will come - we are the change we have been waiting for.

Burnout is epidemic. Thanks to @ColinWestMDPhD for his insightful wisdom and research. We need to reclaim agency as physicians. No one is coming to rescue us. #FightBurnout

Good science= dif groups use dif methods to find same result. 1:mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showPdf… and 2: ja.ma/3y2lDqr found... Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds nytimes.com/2022/09/29/hea…

so if the well-being issue is local, to some extent the solutions will also need to be local. hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/

How much exhaustion is explained by WHO your coworkers are? 15-24% Heaven/Hell is other people Seinfeld: "People, they're the worst" Social contagion of well-being Emotional Exhaustion Before/During COVID-19 ja.ma/3xLnVtF via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork