Description

The fast pace of military operations andfrequent deployments affect the entire military community. Forhealth care providers treating military personnel, the intensedemands on their time and personal resources can lead to burnout,compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Throughpsychoeducation and self-assessments, Provider Resilience givesfrontline providers tools to keep themselves productive andemotionally healthy as they help our nation’s service members,veterans, and their families.

The Provider Resilience home screen gives a quick snapshot ofthe user’s overall resilience rating – generated through userself-assessments – and a reminder clock showing how long since theuser last took a day off. Compassion fatigue, burnout, andsecondary traumatic stress ratings can also be viewed inautomatically generated graphs, allowing users to monitor theirprofessional quality of life over time.

Provider Resilience also features stress-busting and compassionsatisfaction-building tools. Videos by service members describingthe positive impact health care providers had in their battles withstigma, depression and other issues help users remember why they dowhat they do. Stretches, daily reflection cards, and Dilbert comicsgive users a break from daily stress.

Provider Resilience was developed by psychologists at theNational Center for Telehealth & Technology, the DefenseDepartment’s primary agency for applying innovative technology toissues of psychological health and traumatic brain injury.