Organizational responses needed to address hospital worker burnout, say science advisers

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The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table says burnout was a significant problem in health-care before the pandemic but it has since reached levels that ‘pose a threat to maintaining a functioning health-care work force’

An essential worker thoroughly cleans a COVID-19 patient's room after being transferred out of the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto on April 13.Ontario’s science advisers say a vicious cycle of health worker burnout and understaffing may be under way.

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table report published this week looks at patterns of burnout reported in Canada, North America and around the world during the pandemic.Their research focused on hospital workers but the group says similar problems exist in other areas of health such as long-term care and public health.

Research shows that nurses, those in intensive care and emergency departments, women, recent graduates and trainees are most at risk of burnout, which can lead to people leaving their jobs and contributing further to burnout risk among remaining staff. Their report says organizations should work to ensure adequate staffing, minimize administrative tasks that add to workload, reduce overtime and long shifts and avoid deploying staff to areas they lack training.

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How brain-damaged does the hospital/health care establishment have to be given that Dr. Zalenko has a proven record of early outpatient treatment of Covid: a) slightly impaired b) seriously impaired c) totally brain dead and self-destructing

Wonder what is the ongoing organizational response to non-compliance with PHO’s? Hope this is included in the solution.

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