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Combating Burnout: Resilience and Well-being in Respiratory Care

About This Course

Burnout is a major challenge in health care and is associated with poor overall well-being, increased medical errors, worse patient outcomes, and low job satisfaction. This panel will discuss burnout in context with the respiratory therapist’s unique role in healthcare, to include defining burnout, discussing the prevalence of burnout, and identifying the consequences of burnout. The panelists will also discuss potential solutions for both the RT and the RT leader to prevent and overcome burnout.

Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test.

Original webcast date: June 8, 2022

**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**

Seminar Objectives

Define burnout

Discuss burnout prevalence and drivers of burnout among RTs

Identify potential solutions for preventing/overcoming burnout

Chapters

Speaker Information

Panelists:

  • Shawna Strickland, PhD, CAE, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, AE-C, FAARC
  • Katlyn L. Burr, MSM-HCA, RRT, RRT-NPS, AE-C
  • Karsten J. Roberts, MSc, RRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, FAARC

Moderator:

  • Andrew Miller, MSc, RRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, FAARC