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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 <[log in to unmask]>
To: Patti Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
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
<snip>
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.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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