How to Manage Stress & Build Resilience in Healthcare Professionals?

Stress and Resilience are the two faces of a coin. The animal needs to become resilient for handling stress. Workplace stress can influence healthcare professionals’ physical and emotional well-being by curbing their efficiency and having a negative impact on their overall quality of life and also indirectly affects the outcome of the patients. Being exposed to stress like pandemic for too long, may lower a healthcare workers' efficiency, effectiveness and could trigger negative consequences on everyone in touch with healthcare workers. In general, healthcare professionals are more prone to stress and professional burn-out, because they are responsible for human lives and their actions or lack of action can have a serious impact on their patient and further litigation can be traumatic to any healthcare professionals. Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques & therapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning. In this context, the term 'stress' refers only to a stress with significant negative consequences, or distress in the terminology advocated by Hans Selye, rather than what he calls eustress, a stress whose consequences are helpful or otherwise Compassion fatigue is the stress that comes from caring and emotionally engaging with patients can strike any healthcare worker if there is a negative outcome of the diseases. Because they care so deeply about their patients, healthcare professionals who listen to stories of fear, pain, and suffering can find themselves empathetically experiencing similar emotions. This video discusses the stress management from the healthcare worker's perspective