About The Program
Self-Care For Those Who Care.
Health Care providers are the targets of high demands from themselves,
colleagues, patients, funding agencies, and families. Burnout and poor
health has been documented in a high percentage of
physicians. Although providers are well trained and competent, often
they have little training in managing these real and pervasive
expectations. Often little time is taken for the self-care needed to
maintain wellness.
Provider Stress Management provides tools (at no
cost to UWMC providers) for developing the qualities that
make life as a health care provider more joyful and less of a
burden.
Goals of program:
- To promote mindfulness-based skills in health care providers that will
improve self-regulation. resilience and stress management.
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To improve patient/client care by promoting empathy, awareness and
appreciation in health care providers.
"I think it is essential to take good care of oneself in
order to be able to take good care of others."
-Tom Staiger,
MD.
Medical Director, University of Washington Medical Center.
"Taking care of ourselves and each other, being vigorous, rested and fully engaged
makes us better partners, care givers, friends and family members to those around
each of us with whom we share our lives and fortunes."
-Mika Sinanan MD PhD
Professor of Surgery, President of University of Washington Physicians.
"A provider that does not successfully take care of his or
herself may struggle to model for their patients how to take
control of their own personal health. We're learning there
are several interventions at that can combat burnout before
progressing to more severe illnesses. Certainly mindfulness
is one of these."
-Charles Meredith, MD
Director, Washington Physicians Health Program
"Providing medical care can provide much joy and
satisfaction. The provider must, however, be skillful in
handling stress in order to experience that joy."
-Richard E. Berger, MD
Professor of Urology and
Director, Stress Management for UWMC Providers
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