You chose your profession because you want to help people. But it’s difficult to help anyone if you suffer from burnout yourself. Due to high patient loads, a daily commute to the office, dealing with insurance companies, and painstaking paperwork, at some point you might become exhausted with your job or career path.

But it doesn’t have to be that way! You can prevent burnout and reclaim enthusiasm for your work by identifying the causes of your feelings and taking the following steps to remedy them.

First, let’s review some of the common causes of burnout, you will probably identify with at least a few of these:

• The work can be physically demanding, with little time between patients.
• You feel restricted by your daily work routine.
• You’re commuting long distances to a work setting.
• You don’t enjoy enough personal time for leisure, hobbies, or family obligations.
• Dealing with insurance companies and their level of paperwork is a hassle
• You don’t feel that your compensation matches your efforts.
• You don’t feel valued by your employer.
• … And probably a few more factors, depending on your situation.

Sound familiar? The above complaints are all too common in our line of work, and often lead to serious dissatisfaction, change of jobs, or even a change of career. But what if you could stick to doing what you love, while also addressing your burnout?

Achieve more freedom. Whether it’s your commute, the hours, the setting, or something else about your daily routine, increased job freedom will likely solve the problem. You need to be able to control your schedule, so that you can achieve better work-life balance or even just better work balance.

Seek a more rewarding environment. The typical employment model can be limiting. You don’t treat your patients as just another number, and you don’t need to treat yourself that way either. When you are in an environment that allows more connection with patients, peers, and accomplishment, you feel like a valuable member of a team.

Ditch the hassles. You decided to become a physical therapist because you wanted to help people heal, not because you enjoy mountains of paperwork and tedious phone conversations or complications with insurance companies. Moving toward a direct pay model allows you to escape those burdens, while spending more time one-on-one with patients.

Increase your compensation. Who wouldn’t be happier with better pay? When you run your own practice, or manage your own time more, you have direct control over your earnings.

Luckily, there is one way to accomplish all of the above goals. Using the KEY Method, starting your own practice or adding Industrial Therapy services will allow you to work directly with local industries. You set the pace, you bill clients directly, you control your earnings, and you enjoy the rewards of working as a teammate with Employers. Contact us to learn more ….we’ll show you how to reinvigorate your career!!!