Late last year I decided to tackle a topic I had been putting off for quite some time: Having the dreaded end-of-life conversation with my family. No, I am not ill (thankfully), nor are my loved ones currently going through a difficult situation.

It is pretty difficult to work in the health care setting without hearing about the plague that has infected the majority of the workforce: burnout. The pressures of caregiving, budgets, bottom lines, quality scores and regulatory burden have been named as a few of the causes.