Week 6: Well being

Question 1

What is burnout?

Answer 1

Unproductive occupational stress that doesn’t go away and cannot be manages by individual alone

Question 2

How does burnout affect us?

Answer 2

1. Impacts out own mental health (health professionals are at higher risk for mental health issues)
2. Found to impact decision making, patient safety, and clinical outcomes

Question 3

What is resilience?

Answer 3

The capacity to respond to respond positively and adapt to daily stressors by developing personal resources that allow one to transcend immediate issues

Question 4

What should resilience be to us?

Answer 4

A person’s return to baseline following a period of adversity

Question 5

What is the difference between resilience and growth?

Answer 5

A person becomes stronger emotionally, builds better social relationships, or develops stronger character strengths as a result of a challenging experience

Question 6

Why does resilience matter?

Answer 6

1. Key in preventing burnout
2. Recovering from burnout

Question 7

How can resilience prevent burnout?

Answer 7

1. Insulates us from burnout
2. Turns unproductive stress into productive stress
3. Promotes growth by drawing on personal strengths and adaptive strategies

Question 8

How can resilience help recover from burnout?

Answer 8

1. Provides a health defense mechanism
2. Helps replenish our cognitive, psychological, and emotional stores

Question 9

What are the tools for building resilience?

Answer 9

1. Vision
2. Self awareness
3. Self care
4. Boundaries
5. Connection
6. Tenacity
7. Hope
   8/ Gratitude

Question 10

What is vision?

Answer 10

Get a clear picture in your mind of what you want.

Question 11

What are the action steps for vision?

Answer 11

1. Discover your why
2. Keep you vision in front of you

Question 12

What question is associated with mission?

Answer 12

Who do you want to be?

Question 13

What question is associated with motivation?

Answer 13

Why do you want to be the person you described?

Question 14

What question is associated with message?

Answer 14

What message do you want to communicate through your life/work?

Question 15

What question is associated with method?

Answer 15

How do you want to communicate your message?

Question 16

What are examples of empowering questions?

Answer 16

1. Why is this important to you?
2. What keeps you going on difficult days?
3. What part of this relates to your dreams?

Question 17

What is self awareness?

Answer 17

1. Build resilience
2. Help replensh out emotional stores

Question 18

What are the action steps of self-awareness?

Answer 18

1. Be attentive
2. Have a plan

Question 19

What is self-care?

Answer 19

About aligning your habits with your vision to create whole-person health

All the pieces of self-care are interconnected

Question 20

What are the action steps of self-care?

Answer 20

1. Take inventory
2. Start small

Question 21

How should we practice self-care?

Answer 21

Reflect on your clearly defined vision and your current havits

Question 22

What are the types of boundaries?

Answer 22

1. Stewarding time
2. Stewarding energy
3. Stewarding relationships
4. Stewarding finances

Question 23

What are resources for stewarding time?

Answer 23

Time management matrix

Question 24

What are resources for stewarding energy?

Answer 24

Energy list worksheet

Question 25

What is stewarding relationships?

Answer 25

1. Identify 1 relational boundary that could be reinforced in your life. Writedown why you feel like this boundary is needed.
2. Identify 1 relational conflict in your life and write down one step you willtake to resolve it.

Question 26

What is stewarding finances?

Answer 26

Identify ways you can feel financially free or secure (set budget, stick to budget, consider spending habits).

Question 27

What is forgiveness?

Answer 27

1. Choose forgiveness. Unforgiveness is a burdern
   2.Forgiveness is not about the other person being who they need to be

Question 28

What is connection?

Answer 28

1. Wired for connection
2. Connection reduces stress levels in the brain
3. Social support may be the single most important resilience strategy

Question 29

What are the action steps for connection?

Answer 29

1. Develop supportive relationships
2. Ask for help
3. Find a mentor

Question 30

What is tenacity?

Answer 30

1. Persistence in seeking something you desire/value
2. You choose the frame through which you see yourself and your circumstances

Question 31

What are the action steps for tenacity/reframing?

Answer 31

1. Be creative
2. Don’t give up
3. Keep your vision in front of you

Question 32

What is hope?

Answer 32

1. Desire accompanied by the expectation of fulfillment
2. Those with high hope cope better with stress
3. hope influences our emotions

Question 33

What are action steps for hope?

Answer 33

1. Discover your hope
   2/ Fuel your hope

Question 34

What is gratitude?

Answer 34

Gratitude practices may increase happiness, mood, and resilience

Question 35

What are the actions steps for hope?

Answer 35

1. Be a good finder
2. Acknowledge the gifts

Question 35

What are the actions steps for hope?

Answer 35

1. Be a good finder
2. Acknowledge the gifts

Question 36

How does mental attitude impact resilience?16

Answer 36

1. Brain is malleable and adaptable
2. Resilience starts in the mind