Burnout & Resiliency
The IPA Board of Trustees has adopted the issue of clinician well-being and burnout as a primary goal of IPA’s strategic plan. As IPA continues its mission to empower the pharmacy profession to improve the health of our communities, we recognize this important issue and hope our members will find these resources helpful in addressing burnout and mental health within our profession.
Pharmacy Workplace and Well-Being Reporting (PWWR)
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) have launched the Pharmacy Workplace and Well-Being Reporting (PWWR) program, the first confidential reporting mechanism of its kind to collect anonymous reports from pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists about their positive and negative experiences in the pharmacy workplace. The program aims to enhance and safeguard the pharmacy workplace using responses from practitioners like you.
The PWWR portal was developed to allow pharmacy professionals to address workplace concerns and suggest improvements without fear of retribution. Reports submitted to the PWWR will remain confidential and anonymous and will be collected and analyzed by the Alliance for Patient Medication Safety (APMS).
Submit to the Pharmacy Workplace & Well-being Reporting portal here.
APhA’s Well-Being Index Report
In 2018, the APhA Board of Trustees adopted a statement on Pharmacists Well-being and Resiliency and committed to addressing this issue by including it in the Association’s strategic plan. This plan included a Well-Being Index (WBI), an anonymous online screening tool invented by the Mayo Clinic to evaluate fatigue, depression, burnout, anxiety/stress, and mental/physical quality of life to assess your well-being. The WBI is a free assessment for pharmacy personnel. Use invitation code: APhA
Results of the index from February 2023 are available here. The report specific to the state of Iowa can be found here.
Understanding the Extent of Burnout in Our Profession
- What is burnout?
- Recognizing, reversing, and preventing hospital pharmacist burnout
- Patient safety culture, a conversation with Bryan Sexton, PhD, Director of Patient Safety Center for the Duke University Health System PODCAST
Tools for Assessment
What are Organizations Saying & Doing About Burnout?
- Recommendations from Enhancing Well-Being and Resilience Among the Pharmacist Workforce: A National Consensus Conference
- ASHP statement on commitment to clinician well-being and resilience
- ASHP’s Wellbeing & You
- ASHP's Take Action - Take the Pledge
- APhA’s statement on commitment to the well-being of pharmacists and pharmacy personnel
- NAM action collaborative on clinician well-being and resilience
- APhA looks to alleviate increasing pressures of the profession
Resources
Resources for Leaders |
Resources for Individuals, Students |
Online Community- Building: Peer Support |
Promoting Resiliency |
Promoting Well-Being
Mindfulness Resources |
Time Management Apps & Tools |
Mental Hygiene |
Sleep Hygiene |
Resources for Leaders
- Create a culture that keeps employees motivated and happy
- How to start the conversation on workplace well-being and resilience *ASHP membership required
- Organizational strategies to promote engagement and reduce burnout
- ASHP Midyear Clinical Networking Session: Recap on clinician well-being and resilience *ASHP membership required
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Office of well-being and resilience
- Taking an inventory of your institute’s well-being plan
- An exploration of the mental health and well-being of postgraduates in pharmacy programs
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Resources for Individuals, Students
- Factors affecting clinician well-being and resilience
- Empowering pharmacists to address burnout and resiliency
- Managing yourself beating burnout
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Online Community-Building: Peer Support
- ASHP Connect – clinician well-being and resilience online community *ASHP membership required
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Promoting Resiliency
- “Resilience” – and Five Tips to Help You Maintain it in 2021
- Psychologist’s Science-Based Tips for Emotional Resilience During the Pandemic
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Promoting Well-Being
Mindfulness Resources
- 2022 Well-Being and Resilience Series *CE credit
- ASHP Well-being and Resilience Ambassador Certificate Program
- How vacations and meditation heal the body and mind
- Finding time for radical self-care in an overscheduled world
- Free guided meditations, UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
- Mindfulness in medicine, UMass Medical School, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society
Time Management Apps & Tools
- 18 time management apps and tools
- Monitoring screen time
- Using focus modes on iOS
- Why work/life integration instead of work/life balance?
- Work life negotiation
Mental Hygiene
- 83 benefits of journaling for depression, anxiety, and stress management
- The secrets to a truly restorative vacation
- 5 Key Emotional Intelligence Skills
- The Defining Skill of 2021: Mental Agility
- Talks about Mental Health – Ted Talks
Sleep Hygiene
- Sleep Guidelines in a Pandemic
- The benefits of sleep and how to take action
- Talks to inspire you to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep, a TED talk playlist
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Updated July 2022