Building Resilience in Health Care in the Time of COVID-19 Through Collaboration - a Call to Action

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented challenge for health care organizations and institutions in which more than 80% of healthcare providers and more than 70% of college level students experience anxiety, stress, and/or burnout (Amnesty International Organization, 2020; Hu et al., 2020; Son et al., 2020). To prevent a parallel pandemic of burnout among current and future healthcare providers, there is a need for bold and strategic actions by all stakeholders and at every...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented challenge for health care organizations and institutions in which more than 80% of healthcare providers and more than 70% of college level students experience anxiety, stress, and/or burnout (Amnesty International Organization, 2020; Hu et al., 2020; Son et al., 2020). To prevent a parallel pandemic of burnout among current and future healthcare providers, there is a need for bold and strategic actions by all stakeholders and at every level to build and enhance resilience among health care systems, organizations/institutions, teams and individuals.From the beginning of the pandemic, the InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global), as the global network for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), created a COVID-19 Taskforce with a mandate to develop and disseminate relevant, timely, and important information for the global IPECP community and beyond. Since established in March 2020, the Taskforce has published three peer-reviewed journal articles, submitted two grants for funding, presented three webinars, and is conducting a longitudinal COVID-19 impact survey This Call to Action is the latest publication of the Taskforce with the goal to raise awareness and urge the global Health Care communities to act strategic and bold, using a system approach, to address the imminent threat of a parallel burnout pandemic through collaboration.