From surviving to thriving: Strategies to cultivate individual and organizational resilience in the health care workforce.

Abstract

In this president's column, the author notes that resilience has been identified as a strategy to mitigate the triumvirate of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress. Once viewed as an innate personality trait, there has been an increased focus on the cultivation of resilience among health care providers, with attention to evolving educational models depending on the career stage of the provider and interventions for interprofessional health care workers. Strategies to develop the "7Cs" of individual resilience, which were initially applied to children and adolescents, have begun to be applied to physicians. If we are to really celebrate our frontline workers, we need to not only promote their personal wellbeing, but also make conscious efforts to restructure the environments and health care systems in which they work. Only through thoughtful and comprehensive interventions-targeting both the individual and the institution-can we truly foster well-being. Such efforts can help move our workforce and teams from the constant state of merely surviving that they have been in the past several years to thriving and finding joy again in their work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).