[Self-care for health professionals]

Recenti Prog Med. 2020 Apr;111(4):205-206. doi: 10.1701/3347.33182.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

In this pandemic global emergency, self-care and psycho-physical wellbeing's programs for healthcare workers are an absolute priority. Now more than ever, physicians and nurses are facing abnormal burdens of work, stressful clinical and organizational conditions and emotional charges that are challenging their ability to cope and jeopardizing their own lives. By improving nutritional education in medical faculties, implementing healthy lifestyles promotion and burnout prevention projects in the hospitals, we will be able to maintain a good quality of care throughout these trying times and hopefully we will improve the selfcare strategies for health professionals for the next future.

MeSH terms

  • Burnout, Professional / etiology
  • Burnout, Professional / prevention & control*
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • Emotional Adjustment
  • Health Personnel / psychology
  • Humans
  • Life Style
  • Medical Staff / psychology*
  • Nursing Staff / psychology*
  • Nutritional Support
  • Occupational Stress / diagnosis
  • Occupational Stress / prevention & control
  • Self Care*
  • Workload