Top Reasons for Burnout in Medical Professionals

According to a recent survey, stress and burnout are the leading causes for medical professionals quitting the workforce. These can lead to dissatisfaction with the job, the risk of jeopardizing patient safety and feeling constantly overwhelmed. Last year, nearly 37% of the American workforce reported a rise in stress levels when compared to the previous year.

Some of the contributing causes of burnout among employees are personal safety, critical care issues, heavy workload, and discrimination. Employers have begun addressing these issues and much more using dedicated programs to avoid burnout.

We have listed the top 3 reasons for medical professional burnout:

High-stress level workload and long hours: When it comes to salaried employees, working longer hours doesn’t convert into productivity, instead it hampers productivity and triggers dissatisfaction. Often this dissatisfaction is aimed toward the employer. Longer shifts also hamper overall company and employee performance.

Pushing your employees to work long hours can trigger highly skilled workers to become disengaged from their work or resign, and can end up damaging a company’s reputation.

Unskilled Management: Inexperienced or unskilled higher management could lead to distress, poor productivity, and higher burnout among employees. Some traits of ineffective leaders are micromanaging, lack of integrity, poor communication skills, and egotism, as well as being unfocused and unaccountable. Poor management can quickly lead to the loss of skilled healthcare employees.

Limited Growth: Employees who do not see any progress in their career growth or expansion of their skill set after being with the organization for some time will become stressed and show a lack of interest in their work. Providing valuable employees with a salary hike, promotion, and continuing education programs to improve their skills will be beneficial to both the organization and the employee.

If you are experiencing burnout at your workplace, then we recommend you also read How to Avoid Burnout for Medical Professionals. We also have conferences dedicated to continuing education in a medical field that you might want to check out.

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