Sleep deprivation is detrimental to physical health, mental health, and learning, but it’s harder to notice. It can affect your creativity and thinking skills. The best way to know if you are not getting enough sleep is to look at a time when you should have peak awareness. If you feel like you are tired, … Read more
As a physician, managing your finances can be surprisingly easy to do, but more often, finances tend to fall into the ‘important but not urgent category. For most of us, this means it’s something we don’t want to stress over too much, which makes it easy for us to put our heads in the sand … Read more
Quality improvement projects and process improvement initiatives are helpful in moving things forward in your clinical practice. Individually, it is about seeing where you are, implementing change, observing, adjusting, and trying again. There is always room for improvement, but it all comes down to having a growth mindset, being intentional, reflecting, and choosing what to … Read more
Batching is not just for cooking; you can also use it intentionally in medicine to improve your efficiency! Your wellness matters and you have to look at what you desire to accomplish and your priorities to achieve your goals. Whether you want to be home sooner, get organized, or take less work home, you can … Read more
Doing it all by yourself is holding yourself back from being efficient. To enhance your efficiency in your workflow, you need to think about what you can delegate, how to delegate, and why you want to delegate a task. Delegation is important, but also it calls for effective closed-loop communication with your team along with … Read more
Closed-loop communication matters in patient care, reducing errors and helping teamwork with communication and workflow, particularly in situations where there is increased variability. It ensures that the message is properly received by exposing deficiencies that we may have in describing what we heard, which can reflect distraction, confusing terms, or different literacy levels. Using closed-loop … Read more
Charting in the room can help you, as a physician, stay on track, improve patient care, take less work home, and make a difference in your workflow. It’s possible, and you can make it happen by charting in the room, finishing notes in the room, and coming prepared to go from room to room, patient … Read more
An effective charting process is important for physicians because it helps them get more out of their work. Your input and those from other stakeholders need to be recorded in the notes. This makes easy documentation and charting efficiency crucial in creating a congruent, transparent, and flourishing system. There are so many things that you … Read more
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” And yet for the thoughtful, deliberate people out there like me, sometimes it’s easier to keep thinking about potential action and learning, rather than putting things into action. Regardless of whether you consider yourself more of a … Read more
What if we could do this particular thing differently in a way that meets both of our needs, even if that is supposedly not possible right now? What other choices, options, or potential adjustments are out there? If you have ever tried to advocate for yourself or others, please check out episode 33 of The … Read more
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