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Institutional Resilience: The Foundation for Individual Resilience, Especially During COVID-19
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Wang Ambulatory Care Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Healthcare professional wellness is crucial during crises. Implementing institutional standards and empathetic values fosters resilience in medical staff, ensuring better patient care.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Organizational Psychology
- Public Health
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted healthcare professional wellness and resilience.
- Institutional unpreparedness exacerbated negative effects on physicians, nurses, and medical staff.
- Healthcare professional well-being is a critical national concern.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify essential institutional standards for navigating healthcare crises.
- To explore the role of empathy in fostering healthcare professional resilience.
- To define hallmarks of resilient healthcare organizations.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of institutional standards (Eudaemonics, Inherent Value, Amplifying Assumptions).
- Exploration of empathetic leadership and its impact on staff well-being.
- Identification of key organizational values contributing to resilience.
Main Results:
- Fixed point standards are essential for organizational direction during crises.
- Ensuring staff feel safe, valued, and cared for is paramount for resilience.
- Empathetic approaches and core values (safety, information, connection, mental health) build resilient individuals and organizations.
Conclusions:
- Embedding institutional fixed point standards is vital for effective crisis management.
- An empathetic approach, prioritizing staff safety, accurate information, human connection, and mental health, cultivates resilient healthcare professionals.
- Resilient healthcare organizations are built upon a foundation of care and support for their employees.
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