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Physician Wellness

Physician Wellness

You need to feel well so we can feel well

POSNA Wellness Mission

POSNA Adopts Wellness Charter

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POSNA Wellness Initiative

POSNA recognizes the vital importance of physician/practitioner wellness among its membership and as a foundational principle for workplace culture. Developing and sustaining a career in pediatric orthopaedics is rigorous and demanding. Practitioners are at risk for depression and burnout and we need strategies to combat this.

POSNA has adopted a Wellness Charter committed to helping

The individual: POSNA will make improving theoverall health and wellness of its members a strategicgoal and adopt metrics to monitor progress.
The unit or clinical care team: POSNA will develop acommunity of caregivers committed to providing compassionate collaborative care of the highest quality fortheir patients, and empathetic concern for each other.
Organizational (Society) leadership: POSNA will provide knowledge, tools, and skills to empower its members to be agents of culture change in their own health care organizations.

Resources

Physician Well-Being: The Reciprocity of Practice Efficiency, Culture of Wellness, and Personal Resilience. Bohman B, Dyrbye L, Sinsky CA, Linzer M, Olson K, Babbott S, Murphy ML, deVries PP, Hamid MS, Trockel M. NEJM Catalyst. 2017 April.
Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience. National Academy of Medicine.
What Do We Mean by Physician Wellness? A Systematic Review of Its Definition and Measurement. Brady KJS, Trockel MT, Khan CT, Raj KS, Murphy ML, Bohman B, Frank E, Louie AK, Roberts LW. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;42(1):94-108. doi: 10.1007/s40596-017-0781-6. Epub 2017 Sep 14. Review.