Improving Patient Care by Improving Work Life Balance for the Athletic Trainer
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Abstract:
Athletic trainers (ATs) are at risk for work-life imbalance and burnout. The literature has identified insufficient staffing, long work hours, travel, lack of control over work schedule, and work overload as characteristics associated with imbalance and burnout. A lack of work-life balance can lead to burnout, and both often lead to emotional and physical exhaustion and eventual disinterest and lack of motivation for one´s job; which can directly impact the quality of the patient care provided. Although organizations have begun to implement initiatives to reduce the impact, ATs themselves must develop their own practices to promote balance and rejuvenation.
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to demonstrate how burnout and work-life balance can impact patient care. Athletic trainers who are exhibiting signs of burnout will be cynical, lack energy, passion and engagement in their colleagues and patients, and will often notice changes in their normal patterns (i.e. eating, sleeping, etc.).,
- Participants will be able to describe how athletic trainers can improve their work-life balance and reduce the chance for burnout.,
- Participants will be able to implement specific strategies from the literature, in addition to real-life cases that will enhance individual work-life balance.
Level:
Essential
Domains:
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
CEUs:
1.25 Category A
Keywords: mental health, burnout, work-life balance, emotional, physical, exhaustion
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Christianne M.Eason, PhD, ATC
Christianne Eason returned to the University of Connecticut to join the Korey Stringer Institute team as the director of innovATe and a contributor to the TUFSS project in the summer of 2020. Dr. Eason is a certified athletic trainer and has worked clinically in the NCAA Division I, NCAA Division III, and secondary school settings. She continues to serve as a medical volunteer at mass medical tent events including the Boston Marathon and Falmouth Road Race. Christianne has provided testimony on behalf of athletic training scope of practice legislation before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health multiple times and continues to be a strong proponent of professional and personal advocacy.
Prior to joining the KSI team, Dr. Eason worked as an Assistant Professor of Athletic Training and the graduate school coordinator for the School of Health Sciences at Lasell University. During her time at Lasell, Dr. Eason was able to assist in the professional level degree transition of the Athletic Training program. Her research interests focus on the work-life interface of athletic trainers and the examination of individual and organizational level factors that impact retention, professional commitment, work-life conflict, and patient care. Dr. Eason is a lead or contributing author on nearly 50 peer reviewed articles, including the NATA Position Statement, Facilitating Work Life Balance in Athletic Training Practice Settings, and authored five textbook chapters. She has presented at numerous national, regional, and state conferences on topics including professional commitment, career intentions, organizational structure, and mentoring. Dr. Eason has expertise in qualitative and mixed-methodologies.
Christianne is a recreational runner and has completed half marathons in the Grand Tetons and Rocky Mountains. She is a self-proclaimed paddle board aficionado and travel enthusiast. Dr. Eason earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Athletic Training from the University of Connecticut, her Master’s Degree in Nutrition and Physical Activity from James Madison University and her Doctorate in Sport Management from the University of Connecticut.