Healthcare burnout affects more than 60% of current healthcare workers. Physician associates are no exception to that statistic. Today on The PA Is In I’m sharing my specific physical symptoms, the turning point that led me to quit my job as a PA, and my experience with wholeness and healing as a PA and as a person.
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In many areas of medicine, nurse practitioners practice alongside physician associates and physicians, are a vital member of the team, and play a similar role as PAs in the care of their patients. So, as PAs, should we feel threatened by NPs?
It’s awesome if healthcare is your calling, your passion, your profession and something you feel drawn to, but hopefully you can have some passions and pursuits outside of the healthcare realm as well.
It’s that time of the year again: Performance Review time – and it’s time to use these performance reviews to advance your career, increase your income and improve your quality of life.
Negative reviews in the past? We will dive into tangible strategies for the three steps you need to take after a negative review and I’m sharing how to make yourself feel like a badass PA, even in the wake of a not-so-hot performance eval.
In this episode, I’ll tell you about my own struggles with negative reviews, negative self-talk and the practice that I created to overcome these hurdles. I’m even sharing some behind-the-scenes personal reviews – the check in that you need on your calendar for yourself, your personal development and the key relationships in your life.
As a healthcare provide we play a key role in society, and we can impact the world more broadly through writing and publication as PAs. Writing it a tool for education and amplification and as a profession we are underutilizing it.
A Unicorn PA – that rare, elusive, mythical creature that is hard to find – a PA who loves their job and has a great quality of life, it sounds too good to be true. In fact, it’s not too good to be true.
Burnout in healthcare has reached epidemic proportions on the heals of a global pandemic. Covid has highlighted the weaknesses and faults in our healthcare delivery system, both for the patients and the providers called to take care of them. Buckle up for a journey through the depths of burnout but spoiler alert: Meg healed form her healthcare burnout and is here to share her story with you.
It’s been a wild ride. A full time Physician Assistant, part time astronaut, Hayley Arceneaux survived pediatric bone cancer to go on to launch into her career as a PA-C and launch into outer space on Inspiration4, the first all civilian mission into outer space!
