Tag Archive: Healthcare Worker Wellbing

Change the human condition, or the conditions humans work in?

If we can’t change the human condition, but we can change the conditions they work in …what should we do?  Specifically, what should we do to improve healthcare for those who work in it and for those who as patients and clients need our help? Last week I attended the Human Factors and Patient Safety […]

Healthcare workers can we make hope contagious

Hope signals optimism, a forward stance, attitude and empowerment. For doctors and healthcare workers, hope is not wishful thinking, it’s a conscious choice to focus on what might be possible.

Personal Agency is Key to Individual Wellbeing and to Organisational Change

According to the Stanford WellMD model of healthcare, healthcare worker well being1 is achieved from 20% personal resilience and 80% organisational responsibility (changing systems and structures in the workplace). The Stanford research is impressive and guides a great deal of our work. It’s impact in helping healthcare organisations to get serious about their responsibilities to […]