Healthy Monday - Week 5:
Dealing with Burnout
Taking time for self-care is important to ensure you get enough sleep, and stay energized and focused. This Monday, consider your sleep quality and make a commitment to improving it if you need to. Schedule some time to watch the video below featuring Dr. Pooja Amy Shah, Director of Integrative Medicine at the Center for Family & Community Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center to better understand how you can use sleep to fight feelings of burnout. After you’ve taken this time for yourself, reinforce your knowledge and share your feedback by clicking the survey link below. We’d love to hear from you.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends individuals, regardless of age, get at least seven hours of sleep per night. But in actuality, one in three Americans fail to get the proper amount of shut eye.
Lack of sleep can lead to burnout and can trigger or exacerbate a number of physical and mental health issues, ranging from chronic pain and high blood pressure to anxiety and depression.
And although we may be aware of the consequences of getting too little sleep, that doesn’t make going to bed any simpler. Thankfully, there are proven methods to improve the duration and quality of your sleep. Dr. Pooja Amy Shah, assistant professor at Columbia University and an authority on integrative medicine, offers a number of different techniques that you can incorporate into your nightly ritual to make falling asleep easier.
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What else is your hospital doing for Healthy Monday?
For staff at Columbia University Irving Medical Center: Get more resources to support this week’s practice from Columbia Work/Life.
For staff at NewYork-Presbyterian: Get more resources to support this week’s practice from NYPBeHealthy.
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