On-the-Go Strategies to Enhance Resilience and Self-Care: Using Technology to Create Healthy Work Cultures

Professional burnout is a significant occupational hazard resulting in lower job commitment, poor patient outcomes, reduced performance, lower job satisfaction, and frequent absenteeism. Models exist that provide guidance in addressing burnout, improving resiliency, and well-being. Advancing evidence-based, multidisciplinary solutions to improve patient care by caring for the caregiver is the cornerstone to increasing resiliency, well-being, empathy, and gratitude. Developing resilience in health care includes a wide array of technological methods to facilitate well-being. Digital journaling, mood tracking, meditation apps, habit tracking, lifestyle apps, and wearable technology are strategies to deal with stress and compassion fatigue.