Building Individual and Organizational Wellness Through Effective Followership

Lauren A Weber; Jessica Bunin; Joshua D Hartzell

doi:10.2147/JHL.S357107

Building Individual and Organizational Wellness Through Effective Followership

J Healthc Leadersh. 2022 Apr 21:14:47-53. doi: 10.2147/JHL.S357107. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Lauren A Weber^{1

2}, Jessica Bunin³, Joshua D Hartzell^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Heart and Vascular Care, Confluence Health, Wenatchee, WA, USA.
² The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ Faculty Development, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Abstract

Burnout is widespread across the healthcare industry. Physician burnout has been linked to significant decrements in personal wellness, patient satisfaction, patient outcomes, and organizational financial losses. Appropriately, burnout has been identified as an important issue for leaders in the field as it can lead to physician turnover and loss of talent. In this article, we address how burnout is related to followership. We assert that physicians can utilize effective followership to increase wellness not only for themselves, but also for their leaders and organizations.

Keywords: burnout; followership; healthcare; leadership.