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at some point in your life you will find yourself caring
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for another person whether you're in the medical field or not.
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That can mean caring for your parents child or even to yourself.
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Over the past 10 years,
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I have unlocked the doors to successful caregiving with
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the experience I have gained in the medical field
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today I want to give you these keys to unlock the doors to be a
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great caregiver to your patients and loved
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ones by reviewing these three main points.
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The impact of empathy,
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the effects of burnout and finally the
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importance of staying organized as a caregiver.
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Starting with my first point, I want to go over the true impact of empathy,
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something that empathy is something that you're just born with.
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But before I worked in the medical field I was terrible
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with people I was introverted and had trouble connecting with people.
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But as time went on I found a leadership position at Baylor Scott and White
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that gave me the proper knowledge and skills I needed to connect with those around me
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and Dr Helen Reese's book the empathy effect.
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She talks about an experiment she conducted
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with her colleagues at Harvard Medical School.
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They recruited doctors from different specialties to
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investigate whether a brief training and empathy skills
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could teach them to better perceive patients emotional
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cues and respond to them more effectively,
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patients were asked to rate the doctors before
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and after the training period and those who
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had been assigned to the training groups consistently
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received significantly higher ratings on empathy skills.
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After the experiment,
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her and her colleagues concluded that it was in fact possible to learn empathy while
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also giving them fulfillment in their work and left them feeling less for now,
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bringing me to my second point, the effects of burnout and how to avoid it.
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Dr Alicia Burpee describes burnout and its effects in
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her article Health care worker Burnout and Self care,
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published on august 10th of 2020
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Dr Boothby says that burnout can manifest as negative feelings
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including disillusionment and a loss of meaning and work.
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According to Dr.
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Burpee,
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approximately 50% of American doctors exhibit signs of
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burnout as health care workers and caregivers.
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We are so focused on the health and well being
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of others that we often forget to care for ourselves
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to avoid the effects of burnout.
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Dr burke,
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he goes over ways and her article to overcome
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and avoid burnout by including these three main points,
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acknowledging your limitations,
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creating time for yourself and utilizing your network
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now that we've covered empathy and the effects of burnout and how to avoid it.
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Finally, we will go over the last point,
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the importance of staying organized as a caregiver
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and AMy Gore's article Time management for the caregiver,
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published on april 4th of 2016,
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Goyer goes over her favorite tips for managing day to day time as a caregiver.
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One of the most important tips that glare mentions is playing ahead.
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This tip is important because it allows you
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more time to focus on the important things.
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An important tip that she shares is defined roles and responsibilities
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being up front about what you are doing and planning to do with your patient,
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allows them time to be comfortable in your care.
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Another tip I would like to share from
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Reuters article is to declutter and get organized
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by de cluttering your space of treatment.
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You are allowing yourself to have a stress free space for you and your patient.
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The last thing I would like to share with you
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today is the last tip in Goias article expect detours.
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It is so important to remember that caregiving is not perfect,
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allowing yourself resilience gives you the strength
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you need when curveballs are thrown unexpectedly.
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Today we covered the impact of empathy,
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the effects of burnout and the importance of staying organized as a caregiver.
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Caregiving is hard but it is also the most
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fulfilling thing you will ever do in your life.
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People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
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but people will never forget how you made them feel