Gratitude: Resilience and Healing for Clinicians During a COVID-19 Pandemic

•  Linda Roszak Burton
•   Bringing Neuroscience to Leadership Development, Burnout, Coronavirus, COVID19, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Gratitude, Gratitude Heals, Gratitude in the Workplace, Health, Leadership, Mental Health, neuroscience, Research, resilience, Well-being, Wellness
• on Jun, 05, 2021
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No one is immune to trauma, grief, pain and human suffering brought on by COVID-19, especially physicians, nurses, and other clinicians. The pandemic has ushered in higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for physicians and nurses who were already experiencing epidemic levels of burnout. The practice of gratitude can serve as a balm to emotional distress as well as a protective bulwark against the potential long-term repercussions of the range of feelings triggered by COVID-19 for those infected by the novel coronavirus and those caring for patients who have been described as among the sickest clinicians have ever seen.

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