{"id":7880,"date":"2021-09-22T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2021-09-22T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:33:09","slug":"scott-burrows-motivational-healthcare-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottburrows.319heads.com\/scott-burrows-motivational-healthcare-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Burrows, Motivational Healthcare Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>It\u2019s Time for Me to Return a Favor<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA lot of doctors and nurses are exhausted and overwhelmed. Like many of us, they thought COVID vaccines would get us closer to life as normal. That hasn&#8217;t happened. What has happened is burnout in the medical profession\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Yuki Noguchi, <em>NPR<\/em> (September 15, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I speak as a <a href=\"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/healthcare-speaker\/\">motivational healthcare speaker<\/a>, both virtually and in-person, to groups throughout North America, I know that it\u2019s never been more difficult to work in the healthcare profession. Healthcare workers are exhausted and underappreciated. They are getting physically sick from stress.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Ford, writing for <em>Nursing Times<\/em> (September 15, 2021) stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>poor work-life balance<\/em> of nurses was also <em>negatively impacting<\/em> on their physical health\u2026Across the emergency sector, other findings suggested 40% of frontline workers were at high risk of <em>mental health disorders<\/em> and that almost half (49%) of staff have been distressed by unwanted images or memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not simply burnout from COVID. It is stress, poor working conditions, long hours, under-staffing and numerous other factors. If the healthcare profession <em>ever<\/em> needed a re-set it is now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I See You, My Dear Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why am I so passionate about being a motivational healthcare speaker? Why do I speak out in support of the healthcare industry every chance I get? For starters, you saved my life.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the night the ambulance brought me into the South Florida hospital after I was involved, as a passenger, in a horrific accident. I went from being a collegiate Division-1 football player and competitive martial artist to a quadriplegic.<\/p>\n<p>It was healthcare professionals who put me back together, rehabilitated me, challenged me, pushed me, counseled me and convinced me that I was far greater than my injuries. I never forgot your selfless acts, your devotion and how you honored me as a person. Now it is my turn to return the favor.<\/p>\n<p>As a motivational healthcare speaker for the healthcare profession, I don\u2019t think I ever fully shared that my philosophy of Vision-Mindset-Grit life was borne in that hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>And when I tentatively left that hospital room, now more than 20 years ago, I carried two things with me: my determination to positively motivate others and the debt of gratitude I owed to the healthcare profession.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I talk to groups of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, I explain the importance of having the <em>shared vision<\/em> of making the changes necessary to improve conditions. I urge that we must all have <em>the mindset to be bigger<\/em> and to work together to achieve greater success not only in the work sense, but the work-life balance sense. How will we do this? How will we stand up together? By having the daily, hourly grit to be better and to be there for one another.<\/p>\n<p>I see you, my dear friends. I feel what you are going through and feel for your journey. It is time for a reset of attitude. You were my kindred souls at my lowest point, and I will never abandon you \u2013 especially <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To contact Scott Burrows, <a href=\"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/healthcare-speaker\/\">Motivational Healthcare Keynote Speaker<\/a> for a virtual or in person presentation, please reach out to him through this website or his office at: (520) 548-1169<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Time for Me to Return a Favor &nbsp; \u201cA lot of doctors and nurses are exhausted and overwhelmed. Like many of us, they thought COVID vaccines would get us closer to life as normal. That hasn&#8217;t happened. 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