Comparing perceptions of operational inefficiencies among clinical healthcare workers by professional role.

Operational inefficiencies remain a critical occupational burden to clinical healthcare workers, contributing to adverse organizational and employee outcomes. Perceptions of these inefficiencies likely vary across occupational roles, yet these differences have not been thoroughly explored in the healthcare setting. To address this gap, inefficiencies at work were self-reported by 1083 interdisciplinary clinical healthcare workers within a large academic medical center in the southeastern United States.

Towards Safer Spaces: An Empirical Investigation of Trainee Psychological Safety Within Academic Medical Centers.

Purpose: Psychological safety is critical for fostering well-being. Integral to the mission of academic institutions, trainees are among the most vulnerable to negative workplace experiences, calling for a need to understand factors that contribute to psychological safety in this population. Our objective is to empirically explore trainee psychological safety to inform best practices for training environments.

Perceived stress from social isolation or loneliness among clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers during COVID-19.

Background: Workplace social isolation and loneliness have been found to result in a decline in job satisfaction and an increase in burnout among working individuals. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated feelings of loneliness and social isolation among healthcare workers. The majority of research on healthcare worker experiences is conducted in siloes which does not reflect the shared experiences of interprofessional teams.

Don't Go: Examining the Relationships Between Meaning, Work Environment and Turnover Intention Across the Entire Healthcare Team.

Introduction: Healthcare workers tend to have a strong sense of altruism in their work, which may be protective against turnover despite poor working conditions. Due to the increased distress noted during the pandemic, the challenges of working in healthcare and changing attitudes about work may have surpassed the protective effect of meaning and purpose in work. This study empirically examines perceived meaning in work, and specific work-related factors that contribute to employees' intent to stay and to recommend working at the organization to others as COVID-19 transitions from a pandemic to endemic phase.

Exploring National Trends and Organizational Predictors of Violence and Mistreatment From Patients and Visitors.

Goal: Rising incidents of violence and mistreatment of healthcare workers by patients and visitors have been reported. U.S.

Burnout, Moral Distress, and Compassion Fatigue as Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Clinical and Nonclinical Healthcare Workers.

Goal: Research has highlighted psychological distress resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers (HCWs), including the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). However, the degree to which these conditions have endured beyond the pandemic and the extent to which they affect the entire healthcare team, including both clinical and nonclinical workers, remain unknown. This study aims to identify correlates of PTSS in the entire healthcare workforce with the goal of providing evidence to support the development of trauma-informed leadership strategies.

Cutaneous Arsenical Exposure Induces Distinct Metabolic Transcriptional Alterations of Kidney Cells.

Arsenicals are deadly chemical warfare agents that primarily cause death through systemic capillary fluid leakage and hypovolemic shock. Arsenical exposure is also known to cause acute kidney injury, a condition that contributes to arsenical-associated death due to the necessity of the kidney in maintaining whole-body fluid homeostasis. Because of the global health risk that arsenicals pose, a nuanced understanding of how arsenical exposure can lead to kidney injury is needed.

Still Exhausted: The Role of Residual Caregiving Fatigue on Women in Medicine and Science Across the Pipeline.

Understanding the impact of caregiving responsibilities on women in medicine is crucial for ensuring a healthy and intact workforce, as caregiving responsibilities have the potential to affect the careers of women in health care along the entire pipeline, from students and trainees to physicians, physician-scientists, and biomedical researchers.

Feeling safe versus being safe: Perceptions of safety versus actual disease exposure across the entire health care team.

As supply chains experienced disruptions early in the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment (PPE) quickly became scarce. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of perceptions of inadequate PPE, fear of COVID-19 infection, and self-reported direct COVID-19 exposure on health care workers. Data to assess distress, resilience, social-ecological factors, and work and nonwork-related stressors were collected from June to July 2020 at a large medical center.

An Investigation of Organizational Correlates of Distress in Non-Clinician Biomedical Researchers in the United States.

Purpose: Challenges ushered by the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increased focus on the mental well-being of the healthcare workforce. Despite the important contribution non-clinician biomedical researchers make to the mission of academic medical centers, the well-being of this unique population remains understudied in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the individual and organizational correlates of distress among non-clinician biomedical researchers.