We need to stop treating breaks as weakness. When organizations celebrate time off instead of shaming it, people actually rest, and that makes everyone healthier. It's not just for healthcare workers.
And it's not specific for healthcare, as you're saying in your former industry and teachers, the themes are common. And so I think that as we raise awareness in more and more groups and language becomes more common and we don't just talk about self care, but we model it and we encourage it to be in my office now, it's common. If we've got a break in patient care, we'll go for a walk outside and nobody's going to criticize us. Nobody's going to be sitting at their desk going, why aren't they chained to their desk working? So there's been a culture shift so that we celebrate when somebody takes a vacation or take some needed time off, instead of grumbling about it and making them feel guilty about it.
