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Reaching for breakthroughs on burnout​

March 2022—Few people want to talk about burnout in health care—at least not publicly. Take, for example, the response of one laboratory professional, who, when asked to be interviewed for this story, waited several days before ultimately declining. Having his institution associated with the topic, he explained, could fan the flames among colleagues. “For sure all of us are feeling weary,” he said in an email (quoted with permission). “And I don’t want this in the face of our team members who are chronically short-staffed while seeing large hiring and retention bonuses going to nurses and others at the bedside. Those payouts are choking off access to capital for replacement equipment and causing every non-nursing position to go through a weekly labor committee review,” with finance leaders evaluating all replacement requests based on funding ability and productivity. “We all have some burnout,” he continued, noting the number of people retiring or trying new careers. The response ticks many boxes on the aspects-of-burnout list.

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Behind book on professionalism: ‘we can do better’

September 2020—Professionalism in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is a new book now out from CAP Publications. It provides a basic understanding, educational and assessment tools, 105 cases specific to pathology and laboratory medicine, guidance in recognizing and addressing lapses in behavior, discussions on best practices and legal and ethical aspects, and much more. Ronald E. Domen, MD, of Penn State College of Medicine and Hershey Medical Center, is editor. His co-editors are Richard M. Conran, MD, PhD, JD, of Eastern Virginia Medical School; Robert D. Hoffman, MD, PhD, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Cindy B. McCloskey, MD, of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; and Suzanne Zein-Eldin Powell, MD, of Houston Methodist Hospital.

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Turnover in phlebotomy: looking deeper than pay

April 2018—Laboratory managers struggling to reduce turnover among phlebotomists should look beyond the pay and examine their hiring and management practices and the dysfunction that could be creating walls between analytical and preanalytical staff. “It’s an enormous problem,” Dennis J. Ernst, MT(ASCP), NCPT(NCCT), director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education, says of phlebotomist turnover. “There’s no silver bullet because there are so many things that lead phlebotomists to give up hope where they work and in the profession. It’s critical that managers are tuned in to the needs of this specialized workforce because they’re varied and many.”

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