Dying to Care: Work, Stress and Burnout in HIV AIDS Professionals (Social Aspects of Aids)

Based on major multi-centre research in the UK, Dying to Care identifies why work stress is a problem in health care generally, and in HIV health care in particular. The similarities and differences between work stress experienced in general health care settings and in HIV/AIDS are explored in a state-of-the-art review of research and experience in the field to date. The book has a practical focus, and goes on to explore ways in which the unique stresses of patient advocacy in HIV/AIDS can be addressed, identifying the best approaches for management. Highlighting the practical importance of a clear distinction between the burnout and work stress for design of strategies for burnout prevention, the emergence of the concept of burnout is described and the general historical confusion between work stress and burnout examined. This will be a key handbook for managers, physicians, nurses, social workers, health advisors and counsellors working in or alongside healthcare. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 9 Series editor’s preface......Page 13 Foreword......Page 14 Preface......Page 15 1 Introduction......Page 18 2 Occupational stress the background to the development of burnout......Page 28 3 Burnout before HIV AIDS......Page 44 4 Symptoms and correlates of burnout......Page 67 5 Burnout in HIV AIDS......Page 86 6 Methodological limitations and issues raised in burnout research to date......Page 111 7 The UK Multi centre Occupational Morbidity Study MOMS experiences and independent predictors of workplace stress and burnout......Page 125 8 The UK studies on staff preferences for support and burnout management and prevention......Page 169 9 Volunteers and burnout in HIV AIDS......Page 199 10 Management of occupational stress and burnout......Page 214 11 Conclusion......Page 242 References......Page 274 Index......Page 292 Imagine some mercenary empire-builder, some new corporate re-engineering, retrenchment-minded money flunkey, hired to make his hospital profitable and indispensible, named Mr. Mercenary. Imagine some mercenary empire-builder, some new corporate re-engineering, retrenchment-minded money flunky, hired to make his hospital profitable and indispensable, named Mr Mercenary. Based on major multi-centre research in the UK, this book aims to identify why work stress is a problem in health care generally and HIV health care in particular.