How to protect your resilience

<p>"Health care delivery will always be inherently unpredictable and challenging. Those drawn to medicine are among our most resilient, but the current landscape reveals acutely a rise in burnout that exceeded acceptable levels even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Such innate resilience in clinicians and clinical care teams is an individual and strategic asset worthy of recognition, protection, and system-wide approaches that nurture and potentiate it. Such system-wide advocacy serves to proactively promote the vitality of health care delivery, quality of care, individual and group purpose, life-work satisfaction, and balance. Ultimately, these all are recognized as antidotes to burnout."</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/penniesempell/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pennie Sempell</a> is an attorney and co-founder and CEO, <a href="https://stresspal.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener nofollow noreferrer">StressPal</a>.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses the KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/persistent-stressors-and-resilience-a-new-way-forward-for-health-care-communities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Persistent stressors and resilience: a new way forward for health care communities</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/persistent-stressors-and-resilience-a-new-way-forward-for-health-care-communities.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/persistent-stressors-and-resilience-a-new-way-forward-for-health-care-communities.html</a>)</p>