Posts Tagged with "Healthy at Work"
View all postsHow to Evaluate Work-Life Balance in Healthcare Jobs
By Benjamin "Caleb" Williams RN, BA, CEN - August 20, 2025
Healthcare jobs can demand long hours, risking burnout and poor work-life balance. Learn how to ask the right questions and evaluate job offers effectively before accepting a new position to ensure work-life balance.
How to Evaluate Benefits Packages
By Benjamin "Caleb" Williams RN, BA, CEN - August 22, 2024
Having a thorough understanding of the benefits package before accepting an offer for employment is important. Here are a few tips for how to evaluate healthcare job benefits to secure a package that supports your health, career growth, and work-life balance.
How to Influence the Culture of Your Hospital
By Benjamin "Caleb" Williams RN, BA, CEN - April 17, 2024
Each hospital has its own culture, influenced by its history, leadership, and community it serves. Influencing this culture, however, requires more than just understanding; it requires action.
Avoiding Burnout as a Clinician
By Benjamin "Caleb" Williams RN, BA, CEN - April 27, 2023
Burnout is a long-term stress that builds, emotionally depleting seasoned clinicians and making it difficult, or even impossible, for them to provide the quality of care they want to provide. Here are a few strategies for avoiding burnout for clinicians.
The Cons of Consistency in Scheduling in Medicine: Why You Might Miss Shift Work
By David Beran, DO - February 8, 2023
Shift work as a physician can be rather draining, but a consistent routine comes with its own drawbacks you might not expect. From feeling trapped on weekends to missing the diversity of your inconsistent work schedule, learn what you need to know before making the switch.
Physician Work/Life Balance: Are You Cheating on Your Family With Your Job?
By Danielle Kelvas, MD - September 21, 2022
Setting a perfect work/life balance is impossible. Something has to give, and you will either be cheating your family or your job; being a doctor includes defending yourself, and standing up for your time. In this article Dr. Danielle Kelvas offers a few best-practice tips for stealing back your time.
Achieving Work/Life Synergy in Healthcare
By Jacob Bollinger, PA - September 15, 2022
Work and time away from work are all really just a part of life. Making the distinction between a work/life balance can be troublesome in that regard, but physician assistant Jacob Bollinger instead suggests we try reframing it as work/life synergy and find ways to make our work lives and home lives support one another.
Burnout is Really Depression in Disguise
By Danielle Kelvas, MD - August 11, 2022
Being burned out is living in a constant state of overwhelming exhaustion, whereas depression is defined by the inability to feel pleasure and dysphoric mood. But is burnout a syndrome in and of itself, or is it actually part of the pathology of a larger depression? Current research argues the latter.
Health Hazards of Working Nights
By Patricia Bratianu RN PhD RH-AHG - June 22, 2022
It is no surprise that working nights is challenging. However, there are more health hazards associated with night shift than you might be aware of. Let's explore common health risks that night shift workers face.
Work-Life Balance as a Physician Assistant: Is it Possible?
By Jacob Bollinger, PA - February 23, 2022
Provider health is integral to patient health, so it is important that physician assistants maintain a healthy work/life balance. While everyone has their own way of finding balance, here are a few time-tested methods for managing your life and workload.
