HCCIntelligence™ Webinar Recording: Self-Care: Avoiding Burnout and Maximizing Yourself and Your Team

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Video Summary

In this webinar, Amanda Tufano discusses the topics of self-care and avoiding burnout in healthcare, specifically in the context of home-based medical practices. She highlights the potential impact of stress on personal and professional life and defines self-care as well as the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Tufano suggests various strategies for developing a self-care plan, such as joint visits with family members, providing documentation time during work hours, utilizing a team approach to educate and reinforce care plans, and implementing administrative support for scheduling and routing. She emphasizes the significance of creating a culture of support, encouraging paid time off, compensating employees appropriately, and being proactive in addressing stress and burnout. Tufano also mentions the potential for home-based medical practice to be a solution to stress and burnout, pointing to the vocationally rewarding nature of the work, the complex teamwork involved, and the flexibility it allows. Finally, she discusses common stressors in home-based medical practices, including family conflicts, financial pressures, patient non-compliance, scheduling and logistic challenges, and feelings of being unsupported. The webinar concludes with a discussion on how to recognize when stress moves to burnout in staff, stressors in home-based medical practices, and how to motivate and appreciate team members.

Keywords

self-care

avoiding burnout

healthcare

home-based medical practices

stress

work-life balance

self-care plan

team approach

scheduling challenges

recognizing stress