ICU Staff Well-Being: an ESICM priority
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The intensive care unit (ICU) is a unique environment where challenging ethical situations, exposure to high patient mortality, and difficult daily workloads can lead to excessive stress for health workers and, eventually, burnout syndrome.
Work-related stress can have a negative impact on ICU workers’ professionalism, quality of care delivery, efficiency, and overall quality of life. Therefore, it is critical to identify and mitigate these work-related risk factors to protect their mental health and well-being.
Learning Outcomes
- Discuss strategies and measures to improve the well-being of staff and patients in the ICU.
- Understand the epidemiology of burnout syndrome in the ICU and the impact it can have on clinicians, patients, and the health service.
- Provide practical guidelines to help build personal and team resilience and create a psychologically safe workplace.
Topics & Experts
“Stressors in the ICU: preventing the avoidable and mitigating the unavoidable”
Katerina RUSINOVA
Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague (CZ).
“Understanding ICU Burnout and its determinants”
Elie AZOULAY
St-Louis University Hospital, Paris (FR). ESICM President).
“Building resilience and work engagement for ICU healthcare providers”
Margo VAN MOL
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL).
Moderators
Katerina ILIOPOULOU
City, University of London (UK). Chair, ESICM N&AHPs Committee.
Susanna PRICE
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Harefield (UK).