MindBodyHealth recently held a free 2-hour mindfulness seminar for health care professionals, based on a September 2009 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) posting research findings that mindfulness training reduces burnout, fatigue, and stress for these providers. (Article Link). Building on this seminar, we are offering a 5-week mindfulness course for health care professionals, beginning Monday December 14 from 6 - 730 PM. The course will follow a similar pattern to the JAMA article research design, and is of importance to health care providers for the following reasons:
- 60% of health care providers experience burnout, fatigue, or significant stress.
- Burnout is linked to poorer quality patient care, increased patient dissatisfaction, and increased errors in diagnostic and decision making. Burnout is also correlated with substance abuse, family discord, automobile accidents, stress related health problems, and suicidal ideation in physicians (particularly with medical residents).
- Health care professionals often struggle with daily self-care management of stress.
- Mindfulness training has been demonstrated to decrease fatigue, stress and burnout in health care professionals while at the same time increasing overall mood stability, and ability to monitor and cope with stress.
- Increased mindfulness skills and decreased levels of stress led to increased patient directed care, and lower levels of reported patient dissatisfaction.
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