Episode 56: Building Resilience to Change Fatigue

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Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Guest: Katherine Albert, DNP, FNP-BC, AOCNP

Feeling like your tank is empty? You may be coping with change fatigue. Katherine Albert, DNP, FNP-BC, AOCNP, of University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, speaks to host Wendy Vogel, MSN, FNP, AOCNP, about how the pandemic has depleted our reserves and left us unprepared to deal with rapid changes in health care. Katherine and Wendy discuss strategies to refuel your tank, including early communication, team cohesion, and taking time to rest, reflect, and recover.

Related Content:
Change Management
Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail https://hbr.org/1995/05/leading-change-why-transformation-efforts-fail-2
Healthcare Leadership Lab https://healthcareleadershiplab.com/

Change Fatigue
The relationship among change fatigue, resilience, and job satisfaction of hospital staff nurses https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12373
Change fatigue in health care professionals—an issue of workload or human factors engineering? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2014.02.007
Change fatigue, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among nurses https://www.proquest.com/openview/09167b00934b43fc5a829fc9efb2d8b2/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Practice Adaptive Reserve
Change implementation: The association of adaptive reserve and burnout among inpatient medicine physicians and nurses. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2018.1451307
Burnout among primary care providers and staff: Evaluating the association with practice adaptive reserve and individual behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06367-z

Surge Capacity
Exploring the concept of surge capacity https://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol142009/No2May09/Articles-Previous-Topics/Surge-Capacity.html
The pandemic has depleted people's surge capacity. Here are ways to recharge.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/jennifer-moss-happiness-column-surge-capacity-1.6202050