Vital Conversations: Influencing Workplace Well-Being in Health Care

Employers increasingly recognize the positive impact of mindfulness, but how can it be practiced in a busy health care setting? Join a conversation with Jennifer Salaverri, a licensed clinical social worker and mindfulness meditation teacher who leads the mindfulness strategy … Ep.10 How We Can Live and Work Mindfully: Strategies for Improving Patient Care, Workplace Relationships and Work-life Balance | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

In this episode of Vital Conversations, Carolyn Carpenter, president of the National Capital Region (NCR) for the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) describes her relational leadership approach, built from 33 years in health care. She offers advice for leaders who might … Ep.9 Leadership Masterclass: How to Build Trust, Belonging and Psychological Safety in Healthcare Teams | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) is a peer responder program that supports health care workers who have emotional distress due to difficult care-related events. Developed in 2010 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, RISE has been replicated by hospitals and health … Ep.8 Caring for the Caregiver — Lessons from 13 years of the Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) Peer Responder Program | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

We welcome Rich Safeer, our colleague in the Office of Well-Being. Rich leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and well-being strategy for Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM). In this episode, the JHM well-being leadership team engages in conversation around culture--a … Ep.7 OWB Leadership Team on Building a Workplace Culture that Supports Well-Being Read More »

Most clinicians know that depression, anxiety and other mood disorders are treatable conditions. Unfortunately, clinicians often face barriers when accessing care for themselves. To better understand why, we welcome Dr. Karen Swartz, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins to … Ep.6 “I should be able to manage this myself”:  The unique challenges of getting clinicians to access mental health care | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

Manisha Loss, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Johns Hopkins, joins the podcast to talk about promising artificial intelligence interventions happening at Johns Hopkins. Learn how new innovations in health IT can bring us closer together, improving the provider-patient relationship. In this … Ep.5 The Promise of Health IT to Support Clinician Well-Being | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

In this episode, Kim Peairs joins us to discuss the role of the medication access pharmacy technician, a promising approach to tackling prior authorizations in primary care being piloted at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Peairs walks us through this team-based intervention … Ep.4 “This Is Getting in the Way of Me Providing the Best Care”: An Approach to Tackle Prior Authorization Burden in Primary Care Read More »

Delivering health care is high stakes, but we too often don’t protect our attention and let in too many distractions. In this podcast, Liz Harry, Chief Well-Being Officer at Michigan Medicine, argues that we make things harder by enabling systems … Ep. 3 Lightening the Load: Strategies to Reduce Cognitive Stress in Clinical Practice | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being Read More »

Has the complexity of our work in health care outpaced our brain’s ability to keep up? Liz Harry, Chief Well-Being Officer at Michigan Medicine, discusses the connection between cognitive load and burnout, and introduces the concept of the attention economy. … Ep. 2 Are You Paying Attention?: How We Can Use Our Focus to Reduce Cognitive Load in Support of Well-Being | Johns Hopkins Office of Well-Being Read More »

Most of us know what it feels like when our well-being at work is compromised. But do we know how we got there? Is it just that it’s been a tough week or we didn’t have time for yoga, or … Ep. 1 No Amount of Kale and Yoga Will Fix This: The Need for a Systems-Change Approach to Workplace Well-Being | Johns Hopkins Office of Well-Being Read More »