Developing LHS scholars' competency around reducing burnout and moral injury
Sirin Yilmaz1, Michele LeClaire2,3, Abbie Begnaud3
1Clinical Ethics, Hennepin Healthcare Minneapolis Minnesota USA.
Learning Health Systems
|January 22, 2024
Summary
Healthcare Learning Health Systems (LHS) now have a new competency to address healthcare worker burnout and moral injury. This aims to improve work environments, patient care, and clinician well-being.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare quality and safety
- Healthcare worker well-being
- Learning Health Systems (LHS)
Background:
- Supportive work environments are crucial for patient safety and healthcare worker retention.
- Rising burnout levels among healthcare workers necessitate urgent attention.
- Learning Health Systems (LHS) currently lack a clear mandate or competency for improving work environments and preventing burnout.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a new competency for moral injury and burnout prevention within Learning Health Systems (LHS) training programs.
- To integrate evidence-based strategies for mitigating moral injury and burnout into healthcare education.
Main Methods:
- Convened experts in moral injury, burnout prevention, and ethics for an interactive LHS training session.
- Utilized scholar prework and expert input, following SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines, for informal content analysis.
- Developed pathways and a new competency for moral injury and burnout prevention programs.
Main Results:
- Scholars differentiated moral injury from burnout and identified COVID-19's impact.
- A new competency was developed focusing on knowledge, measurement, intervention, supportive environments, and system integration.
- The competency prepares scholars to address burnout and moral injury systematically.
Conclusions:
- Burnout and moral injury prevention have been underemphasized in LHS training.
- A dedicated competency can foster sustainable work lives for healthcare professionals.
- Implementing this competency can enhance scientific integration into practice and improve patient outcomes.
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