How GlyCare Can Help with Physician Burnout
Reducing the Stress on Hospital Physicians with Specialized Glycemic Management
by Jennifer Peterson, DNP, APRN, LMT, FNP-BC
People who live in rural areas are more likely than urban residents to have higher rates of unhealthy behaviors and less access to healthy foods and health care. According to the CDC (2019), rural residents are also more likely to die prematurely from the main causes of death which include heart disease and stroke. Rural populations also have higher rates of diabetes which we all know leads to higher rates and greater severity of heart disease and stroke among other complications. Studies have shown rural persons with diabetes have higher morbidity and hospital mortality rates from diabetes-related complications (Ferdinand, 2018). There is a shortage of some medical specialties in rural areas, even in hospitals, and this includes diabetes care.
Maintaining hospital quality and productivity
According to Nelson (2012), hospitalist groups are struggling to ensure workload balance of high productivity and sustainable quality. One study revealed more than half of primary care physicians report stress due to time pressures and other work conditions (AHRQ, 2017). What if physicians could have at least one hour back in their day? That hour could be used to slow down, talk to and examine the patients a little more in-depth, think through the hard cases a little more thoroughly, finish up paperwork, etc. One of the inpatient hospitalists who partners with GlyCare reports he can recover an hour or more each day with GlyCare on board. So what is GlyCare?
How GlyCare Lessens the Burden on Physicians
GlyCare is a team of dedicated, endocrinologist trained and supervised, diabetes mid-level providers who care for patients’ glycemic abnormalities. They work in conjunction with physicians, nurses, and staff to ensure proper blood glucose management. The team can expedite glucose control and subsequently ensure it stays within goal range. This can lessen the burden on the physicians. Patients with diabetes need proper support, guidance, and safe medication planning. Outsourcing diabetes management to GlyCare can return valuable time to the physician’s day.
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About the author
Dr. Jennifer Peterson, Nurse Practitioner, is the Director of Quality Assurance and Integration for GlyCare. She has years of experience managing diabetes for patients in the hospital and now trains other nurse practitioners to do the same. Dr. Peterson also ensures GlyCare provides high quality services for all patients through a quality review program she created.
References
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2017). Physician Burnout.
Estes, M. & Wagstaff, T. (2020). Burnout in health care; a team effort can combat this critical issue. American Hospital Association.
Nelson, B. (2012). Appropriate patient census: hospital medicine’s holy grail. The Hospitalist.
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