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June 12, 2019
As pathologists and laboratory professionals, you give so much of yourself to others that there’s often nothing left for you. Making yourself a priority is hard. But don’t worry. ASCP is thinking of you and has the answer.
Check out these unique sessions at the ASCP 2019 Annual Meeting, September 11-13, in Phoenix that focus on how YOU can attend to your own personal development in order to provide the best care for others. Here’s a brief description of these sessions.
Preventing Burnout in the Lab
On September 11, Edward C. Klatt, MD, FASCP, will offer a session, “The Human Interface: Promoting Civility, Resilience, and Wellness to Prevent Burnout.” He notes that difficult interactions create stress that reduces our effectiveness on the job, impedes reception of our information and our services, and can lead to career burnout.
In its recently published 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the World Health Organization (WHO) listed burnout as an “occupational phenomenon” and described it as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”1
“In contrast to burnout, wellness promotes optimal levels of health and emotional and social functioning,” Dr. Klatt says. “Wellness is an ongoing process of self-awareness to make healthy choices resulting in a successful, balanced lifestyle.”
In his workshop, Dr. Klatt will present methods that laboratory professionals and pathologists can use to enhance and improve the workplace environment to reduce anxiety.
Practicing Mindfulness
As laboratories become more automated, repetitive stress injuries are a common complaint, for which a regular yoga practice can be used therapeutically to ease these chronic physical issues. Tiffany Yu, MLS(ASCP)CM, will lead a session on September 13 titled, “Incorporating the Yogic Practices of Mindfulness, Movement, and Breath in Modern Health-Care Practice.”
This session will examine how occupational stress experienced in the modern clinical laboratory is a risk factor for burnout and physical illness and how yoga can be beneficial to laboratory professionals and pathologists by building flexibility and strength in a low-impact way. The consequences of workplace stressors—time pressure, long hours, increased workload, and staff shortages—can negatively influence relationships with coworkers, the ability to function as a team, and the quality of patient care.
The medical laboratory profession is one of great privilege. Pathologists and medical laboratory professionals are bestowed with an important role in patient care. Yet they often put their careers and obligations ahead of their needs. With these unique sessions that will be offered at the ASCP 2019 Annual Meeting, ASCP hopes you’ll make your own health a priority, too!
Learn more about education sessions at ASCP 2019 Annual Meeting here.
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