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Before and increasingly during the Covid-19 pandemic, we read that burnout among healthcare providers is increasing. The Surgeon General issued a bulletin on the alarming rate of health worker burnout and resignation in May 2022, citing a 2019 National Academies of Medicine statistic indicated that up to 54% of nurses and 60 % of physicians, medical students, and residents suffer from burnout. We are all feeling the effects of low morale as colleagues leave long-term medical positions and hospitals often reach capacity, not from a lack of beds but a deficiency in staffing. Military soldiers experience similar occupational hazards affecting their mental health. In addition to PTSD, anxiety and depression, substance abuse, and suicide, soldiers have also been described suffering from moral injury that is distinct in cause, symptoms, and treatment from PTSD. Health care workers are also at risk of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicide. They are also at risk for moral injury of a different type—also distinct in cause, symptoms, and treatment from burnout. What if that which we are diagnosing and treating as burnout is really moral injury which requires a different treatment. What can we learn from the growing body of knowledge to help us recognize moral injury, understand the burden of those suffering from moral injury as different from burnout, and offer hope and help for healing.

List of Learning Objectives:

• List the three critical components of moral injury.
• Describe how moral injury differs from PTSD.
• Compare the differences between moral injury and burn-out in health care workers.
• Contrast treatments for PTSD, occupational burn-out, and moral injury.
• Identify moral injury in ourselves and those around us so that we can offer help for healing.

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Dental Credit CDE - Subject Code: 770 Self Improvement
Christian Medical & Dental Associations is a Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement.
1/1/2023 to 12/31/2026
Provider ID# 218742
1 Lecture Hour(s) Available.

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