Healthcare Workers

Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly.

The National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being is intended to inspire collective action that focuses on changes needed across the health system and at the organizational level to improve the well-being of the health workforce.

With burnout and staff turnover in health care continuing to rise at alarming rates, this white paper describes four steps leaders can take to improve joy in work and workforce well-being; a framework with nine critical components for ensuring a joyful, engaged workforce; key change ideas; and me

Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that has physical and emotional consequences for individuals, as well as repercussions for individuals’ work with clients, patient safety, and health system operations.

This 30-page Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being offers a foundation that workplaces can build upon.

This Advisory contains steps that different stakeholders can take together to address health worker burnout. It calls for change in the systems, structures, and cultures that shape health care.

This guide has been developed by the Clinical Excellence Commission to assist New South Wales (Australia) mental health services develop a restorative just and learning culture as part of the Zero Suicides in Care initiative.

This article provides tips on how healthcare leaders can promote and practice self-care in their systems, supporting the workforce at a time when burnout is all too common.

The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention developed this guide to provide workplace leaders with clear action steps for suicide postvention, including immediate, short-term, and long-term responses to help employees cope with the aftermath of the traumatic event.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvements created this guide to provide ideas and lessons learned aimed at improving the well-being of the health care workforce.