In today’s episode, Marcus chats to Bryan Sexton, PhD about conducting wellbeing research for healthcare workers, measuring rates of burnout, and interventions to help alleviate burnout.
He shares how patient safety starts with the wellbeing of healthcare workers, highlighting that patient safety improves if caregivers are well taken care of, happy, and engaged. Delving into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, Bryan also shines a light on the prevalence of exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and lack of engagement in healthcare.
Bryan also discusses his love of yoga and meditation and upcoming healthcare innovations that make him hopeful for the future.
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More About Bryan Sexton, PhD
Bryan is the Director of the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety and Quality. He leads the efforts around research and training that guide our quality improvement and well-being activities. A psychologist member of the Department of Psychiatry, Bryan is a psychometrician and spends time developing methods of assessing and improving safety culture, teamwork, leadership and especially work-force well-being. Currently, he is disseminating the results from a successful NIH R01 grant, using RCTs to demonstrate that we can cause well-being to improve in healthcare workers.
A ridiculously proud father of 4, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, listening to books on Audible, and over-reacting to a friendly game of Wahoo with his family.
For more information on Dr. Sexton’s research, check out his Scholars@Duke profile.
Date: 2/12/2024 Name of show: Compassion & Courage: Conversations in Healthcare Episode number and title: Episode 137 - Bryan Sexton, PhD, and Wellbeing Research for Healthcare Workers