[net-gold] LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : LIBRARIES: MEDICAL : EMPLOYMENT: BURNOUT STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ISSUES: Even MORE: Re: More: Emotional Burden of Being a Medical Librarian

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:23:24 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : LIBRARIES: MEDICAL : EMPLOYMENT: BURNOUT STRESS
    AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ISSUES:  Re: More: Emotional Burden of Being a
    Medical Librarian



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A response to this post, rather immediate, notes that medical librarians in cases of wrong diagnosis and treatments may be coming between physicians and nurses with the information they are providing, which brings to mind the stressors in the Winkler Hospital case in Kermit, Texas involving firings and prosecution of nurses for sending information about treatments by a physician that were dangerous to patients that this link will provide access to in prior Net-Gold postings.


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Subject: LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : LIBRARIES: MEDICAL : EMPLOYMENT: BURNOUT STRESS
    AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ISSUES:  Re: More: Emotional Burden of Being a
    Medical Librarian




LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS :
LIBRARIES: MEDICAL :
EMPLOYMENT: BURNOUT STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ISSUES:
Re: More: Emotional Burden of Being a Medical Librarian



The post below was sent to the MEDLIB-L discussion group as part of a discussion of the impact of stress on medical librarians in terms of their pschological well-being and health. This is apparently a little covered aspect of medical librarianship, if indeed there has been any research in this field as well.



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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:52:04 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Patti Reynolds <patti-reynolds@xxxxxxx>
Cc: MEDLIB-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: More: Emotional Burden of Being a Medical Librarian




I have some comments to make on this issue. First of all, I did a superficial search and could find no publications that discuss stress, anxiety and emotional aspects of work in medical libraries. This may be a virgin territory for research. Secondly, I do think that those working in medical libraries (I am not so employed), have additional stressors that are not as much a part of other library areas of employment. One core reason for this stress is that mistakes in reference work could lead to bad results including death of a patient under medical care. Information is also frequently needed yesterday or before and this compounds the stress attending getting the answer right as one must get it right very quickly. With the growth of areas like consumer health and issues like health care reform, many medical librarians find themselves not just serving a public of physicians, nurses, medical students and other health care professionals, but also now a general public and patients whose medical understanding and grasp of English may vary from that of the traditional medical professional clietelle of the medical and hospital librarians. This adds new layers of stress as the librarian needs to find information sources regarding serious medical conditions that these members of the general public can understand. One indicator of the seriousness of finding accurate information in this field is the tremendous attention paid on this very list to the accuracy, usability, search features and searching problems of using medical databases and databanks. I am not on or aware of any other list that takes search technique as seriously and considers it as critically important to their library work as the members of this list do. This level of serious attention to these and other similar matters I consider as a strong indication of the importance that the life and death as well as the need for best medical outcomes factor in the ways your work may be used play in your approach to the tools you use for finding information. In law, if the database does not work, you may lose a case and life goes on. Law librarians, by the way, also take the search tools in their field very seriously. If a social science database does not work as well as it should, some college students may get lower grades and they probably only used Google anyway, so the scope of disaster is much different than patient death or harm. All that said, I do believe that investigation of the impacts of medical reference work to the pschological well being and medical impacts of ongoing work in such a stress filled environment is a matter that needs research and study. Doctors and nurses are the subjects of burnout and job pressure research, so should medical librarians be so evaluated and understood.



<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&source=hp&q=
(burnout%20OR%20%22burn%20out%22%20OR%20%22psychological%20stress%22)
%20and%20%22medical%20librarians%22&aql=&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/yegfong>


(burnout OR "burn out" OR "psychological stress") and "medical librarians"

Results 1 - 10 of about 41


Including this item:

Statistical measures for shelf reading in an academic health sciences center library nih.gov [PDF] WA Pedersen - Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1989 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov


and this


Evaluation of teaching--paper versus electronic methods.
R Palmer, UK Birmingham - Medical teacher, 2009 - informaworld.com
... 2004. Resident burnout. JAMA 292:28802889.



and more interesting items with nothing to do with the impact of stress on medical librarians.


Now consider this search result:


<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%28burnout+OR+%22burn+out%
22+OR+%22psychological+stress%22%29+and+%28nurse+OR+nurses+OR+nursing+OR+
physician+OR+physicians+OR+%22health+care+professionals%22+OR+%22health+
care+workers%22%29&btnG=Search&as_sdt=800000000000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0>



A shorter URL for the above link:



<http://tinyurl.com/yfmaa6d>


Results 1 - 10 of about 73,900


and a small sample of results from the top of the deck:



The effect of social support and the work environment upon burnout among nurses
JF Constable, DW Russell - Journal of Human Stress, 1986 - doi.apa.org
... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Journal Article]. The effect of social support and the work environment upon burnout among nurses. ... Abstract. 310 military nurses completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Work Environment Scale, and a social support measure. ...
Cited by 191 - Related articles - All 5 versions




Effort reward imbalance and burnout among nurses
AB Bakker, CH Killmer, J Siegrist, WB - of Advanced Nursing, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com This study among a sample of 204 German nurses tested the hypothesis that an imbalance of high extrinsic efforts spent (ie job demands) and low extrinsic rewards obtained (eg poor promotion prospects) are associated with the burnout syndrome: the depletion of nurses' emotional ...
Cited by 145 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions



Burnout in nursing.
JF Lavery, K Patrick - Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, The - search.informit.com.au To cite this article: Lavery, JF and Patrick, K. Burnout in nursing. [online]. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, The; Volume 24, Issue 3; 2007 Mar-May; 43-8. Availability: <http://search.
informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=169566706253775;res=IELHEA> ISSN: ...
Find Full-Text @ TU




The correspondence of patient satisfaction and nurse burnout
MP Leiter, P Harvie, C Frizzell - Social Science & Medicine, 1998 - Elsevier
This study examined the relationships of nurse burnout, intention to quit, and meaningfulness of work as assessed on a staff survey with patient satisfaction with nursing care, physician care, information provided and coordination of care, and outcomes of the hospital stay ...
Cited by 192 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions



A model of burnout and life satisfaction amongst nurses
E Demerouti, AB Bakker, F Nachreiner, - of Advanced Nursing, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com ... The resulting conceptual model of burn- out and life satisfaction proposes that job demands are most strongly related to feelings of ... SEM-analyses provide clear evidence for this model, and
uncover some of the antecedents and consequences of burnout among nurses. ...
Cited by 153 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions



Burnout among physicians
N Pranjic - European Psychiatry, 2008 - Elsevier
Results: 534 physicians responded to the survey (76% response rate) and 511 questionnaires could be analyzed. 27.0% of respondents had a high score for emotional exhaustion, 23% had a high score for depersonalization/ cynicism and 23% had a low score for personal ...




[PDF] Burnout in nursingajan.com.au [PDF]
K Patrick, JF Lavery - Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2007 - ajan.com.au Objective: Previous research has suggested that organisational change can contribute to stress-related outcomes for workers. Burnout, one such stress-related outcome, has been conceptualised as a multidimensional construct consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation ...
Cited by 9 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 3 versions


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I think there is just a tiny difference in the awareness, attention, interest, concern and research regarding stress, burnout, medical conditions and psychological harm from job related causes for medical librarians in comparison to other medical professionals, can one say chasm.




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