Open AccessWork–Life BALANCE: How Some Case Managers Do It!
Author(s) -
Suzanne K. Powell
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
professional case management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1932-8095
pISSN - 1932-8087
DOI - 10.1097/ncm.0000000000000317
Subject(s) - balance (ability) , work–life balance , work (physics) , computer science , process management , business , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering
Estimates of the health care workforce place the number with burnout symptoms as high as 60%. Case management-whichever discipline you practice in-is a stressful job, fraught with compassion fatigue and physical, mental, and spiritual signs of burnout. If not careful, those feelings can spill into one's entire life. A small convenience sample was used to determine how some case managers find their work-life balance.