What is moral injury (burnout) like…

This is graphic, it is pain and hurt coming out, Read at your own peril It was Wednesday when my boss called me to his office for a little “chat.”  Lisa had come up with another list of complaints (she was getting quite good at these since I think she spent more time watching me …

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Yeah, I am “that provider…”

Obviously, I have experience as a nurse and have moved on to become a nurse practitioner. In that program, we spend a great deal of time both with assessment and diagnostics (obviously since in the end we will ordering some type of treatment).  Well, I developed chest pain in the afternoon that was very sharp …

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Stop calling it burn out…

I agree it is more of a moral injury: Moral injury refers to an injury to an individual's moral conscience resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression which produces profound emotional shame. The concept of moral injury emphasizes the psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma. I stumbled across this video from Dr. Z who does a video podcast that …

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