Workplace Wellbeing

@

Aotearoa New Zealand

Emergency Departments

Welcome to the

Workplace Wellbeing Site for Emergency Department staff

in Aotearoa New Zealand

The wellbeing of emergency department staff in Aotearoa New Zealand is integral to the maintenance of high performing health systems, and the ability to provide high quality healthcare (HQH). Here’s a video about HQH.

The fourth dimension of the “Quadruple Aim”, “improving the experience of providing care” is worth pursuing from legal, ethical, and fiscal perspective. Most importantly, improved patient outcomes are inversely associated with staff burnout.

A quality improvement approach may improve workplace wellbeing in emergency departments. This involves gathering baseline data, deciding on improvement programs, implementing those, and repeating measures over time.