Clinician Burnout News and Resources for Healthcare

Easing Administrative Burdens: Staffing and Burnout Challenges

April 24, 2024 - There continues to be an acknowledgment of the significant levels of burnout experienced by medical personnel. Burnout is also being cited as the primary reason for healthcare workers leaving the field. In 2022, 40% of doctors and 49% of nurses reported they were experiencing burnout, and 32% of nurses were planning to leave their profession within...

How to Adapt as Healthcare Workforce Management Shifts

January 23, 2024 by Jacqueline LaPointe

There’s a significant workforce crisis in healthcare right now, according to Sarah Nosal, MD, FAAFP, a family physician and a member of the board of directors at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Nosal, who also...

75K Kaiser Workers Walk Off in Healthcare’s Largest Strike

October 04, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

More than 75,000 unionized workers of Kaiser Permanente launched a strike today, marking the largest strike of healthcare workers in US history. The workers represented by a coalition of eight unions...

Workforce Woes Surpass Financial Pressure As Healthcare’s Top Threat

October 02, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Clinician burnout, staffing challenges, and nursing shortages are the top organizational threats over the next year, according to most healthcare leaders. CIOs, IT leaders, and clinicians responding...

Physician Turnover Trends Up, But Not As Bad As Expected During COVID-19

July 25, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Physician turnover is on the rise, although the cause behind doctors moving practice and leaving healthcare altogether is still unknown. In a new Annals of Internal Medicine study, researchers from...

AMA: US Healthcare System Headed for Success After 2022 Hurdles

June 12, 2023 by Victoria Bailey

Medicare payment cuts and physician burnout continue to hurt the country’s healthcare system, but federal and state policies implemented in the past year have created a promising path forward,...

Clinician-Owned Practices Improve Quality Without the Burnout

April 10, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Workplace cultural and structural factors in clinician-owned practices that result in lower levels of staff burnout may also enable quality of care improvements, according to a recent study in JAMA...

Physician Compensation Fell, Gender Pay Gap Persisted in 2022

March 24, 2023 by Victoria Bailey

Economic challenges for healthcare workers continued in 2022, as the average physician compensation fell by 2.4 percent and the gender pay gap persisted, according to a report from Doximity. The...

Healthcare Has Yet to Feel Full Impact of Physician Retirements

March 22, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare organizations need to prepare for a wave of physician retirements, according to a new survey from the physician, physician leader, and advanced practice provider recruitment firm Jackson...

Tech Worsened Nurse Burnout, Can a New Health IT Strategy Make it Right?

March 15, 2023 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Nurses are unhappy, and they are letting hospital operators know it. Nurse burnout, clinician shortages, compensation disputes, and the lingering effects of a global pandemic have made the nurse experience unbearable for many...

Locum Tenens Clinicians Experience Lower Burnout Levels than Physicians

January 31, 2023 by Victoria Bailey

As physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) continue to struggle with burnout, 71 percent of contract physicians and locum tenens clinicians reported experiencing little to no burnout,...

Share of Unionized Healthcare Workers Remained Low for 12 Years

December 29, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Over the last 12 years, the share of unionized healthcare workers remained stable at 13.2 percent, with nurses, older workers, and those working full-time more likely to report being unionized,...

Younger Primary Care Physicians Seeing High Levels of Burnout, Stress

November 18, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Primary care physicians have faced significant levels of stress since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of physicians under 55 experiencing emotional distress and burnout,...

ACEP Urges Biden Admin to Address Emergency Department Boarding

November 14, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and over 30 medical associations have urged the Biden Administration to assemble a summit of healthcare stakeholders to address immediate and...

ACOs Improve Quality, Physician Burnout As New Opportunities Emerge

September 26, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to improve healthcare quality for patients while reducing costs. Even as healthcare providers have operated in an unstable industry for the past few years, ACO programs have continued to achieve...

Healthcare Worker Unemployment, Clinician Burnout Rose During Pandemic

September 22, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Healthcare workers saw a relatively small increase in unemployment rates during the COVID-19 pandemic but experienced more clinician burnout, according to two studies published in JAMA and JAMA Network...

88% of Healthcare Facilities Employed Locum Tenens Providers

June 07, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

The majority of healthcare facilities used locum tenens providers to help maintain care delivery amid staffing shortages, according to a survey from AMN Healthcare. Locum tenens physicians are...

US Surgeon General Offers Steps to Address Healthcare Worker Burnout

May 25, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Healthcare stakeholders and policymakers must take action to address healthcare worker burnout or risk exacerbating the projected workforce shortage, a report from the United States Surgeon General...

Hospital Groups Urge HHS to Renew COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

March 30, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and eight other hospital groups have urged HHS to renew the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which is currently set to expire on April 15, 2022. In a...

Burnout, Stress Fuel Nurse Staffing Shortage, Turnover Rates

March 17, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

Over a third of nurses plan to quit their current position by the end of 2022, citing burnout, stressful environments, and compensation as reasons for wanting to leave, according to a report from...

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