TY - CHAP
T1 - Even Superheroes Need Rest: A Guide to Facilitating Recovery from Work for Health-care Workers during COVID-19 and beyond
AU - Stephenson, Amber
AU - Sullivan, Erin
AU - Raj, Minakshi
AU - Tietschert, Maike
AU - Sriharan, Abi
AU - Lai, Alden
AU - DePuccio, Matthew
AU - Thomas, Samuel
AU - Scheck McAlearney, Ann
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic burdens health-care workers (HCWs) worldwide. Amid high-stress conditions and unprecedented needs for crisis management, organizations face the grand challenge of supporting the mental health and well-being of their HCWs. The current literature on mental health and well-being primarily focuses on improving personal resilience among HCWs. However, this puts the responsibility for coping with COVID-19-related stress almost fully on the individual. This chapter discusses an important alternative framing of this issue - how health-care organizations (HCOs) can facilitate recovery from work processes (i.e., returning to a baseline level by engaging in nonwork activities after work) for their workers. Based on a narrative review of the occupational health psychology literature, we provide practical strategies for supporting the four key recovery experiences of detachment, control, mastery, and relaxation, as well as present general recommendations about how to promote recovery. These strategies can help HCOs facing the grand challenge of sustaining worker well-being and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future pandemics and for workers facing high work pressure in general.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic burdens health-care workers (HCWs) worldwide. Amid high-stress conditions and unprecedented needs for crisis management, organizations face the grand challenge of supporting the mental health and well-being of their HCWs. The current literature on mental health and well-being primarily focuses on improving personal resilience among HCWs. However, this puts the responsibility for coping with COVID-19-related stress almost fully on the individual. This chapter discusses an important alternative framing of this issue - how health-care organizations (HCOs) can facilitate recovery from work processes (i.e., returning to a baseline level by engaging in nonwork activities after work) for their workers. Based on a narrative review of the occupational health psychology literature, we provide practical strategies for supporting the four key recovery experiences of detachment, control, mastery, and relaxation, as well as present general recommendations about how to promote recovery. These strategies can help HCOs facing the grand challenge of sustaining worker well-being and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future pandemics and for workers facing high work pressure in general.
UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34779188/
U2 - 10.1108/S1474-823120210000020010
DO - 10.1108/S1474-823120210000020010
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781801178013
T3 - Advances in Health Care Management
SP - 273
EP - 282
BT - The Contributions of Health Care Management to Grand Health Care Challenges
A2 - Hefner, Jennifer L.
A2 - Nembhard, Ingrid M.
PB - Emerald Publishing Limited
ER -