The CompassionRX

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     As a PA are you frustrated with your noncompliant patients?  Are you tired of your patients unrealistic expectations and the entitlement that comes with it?   Perhaps you struggle to appreciate that the most difficult...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX, a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Is weary of difficult patients?  Perhaps you struggle to stay calm and responsive instead of reactive in difficult encounters?  Or maybe you’re a new PA who needs to learn valuable tools for a succe...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     As a PA:  Do you feel frustrated with difficult patients?   Perhaps you are weary of the daily grind, and seeing difficult patients only adds to feelings of being a cog on the wheel. Or maybe you wish your patients wou...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Desires to see your patients health improve?  Perhaps you struggle to be focused and listen instead of judgmental?  Or maybe, deep down you know the approach you have with difficult patients isn’t wo...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Is tired of demanding entitled patients?  Do you struggle to stay responsive instead of react?  Have you lost a sense of fulfillment and purpose in your vocation?    My name is Kristen Jardine. A Lif...

Friend, I don’t know about you, but I love when things are efficient! What if shifting your mindset was as simple as one word? Society says we must work hard at mindset, and that it takes self to make things better?  We are told we must work hard to achieve peace of mind, yet friend, the truth is so much simpler which is simply amazing!  I used to spend hours and hours in eastern religious meditat...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     As a PA have you:  Struggled with negative thoughts?  Become weary of trying to change your thinking?  Or maybe you’re a new PA who seeks to learn valuable tools for a successful career?    My name is Kristen Jardine....

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Is overwhelmed by all you have to juggle at work and at home?  Perhaps you are navigating a stressful job situation that nags at you?  Or maybe, on a more personal level, it seems your personal relat...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  A deeper satisfaction is missing despite all you do?  Perhaps you have switched jobs multiple times seeking the right one? Or maybe you’ve grown weary of traditional medicine and are seeking alternat...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.   Are you a PA who struggles to rest when you are not at work?   Perhaps you are determined to figure out every challenge you face, because as a PA we are trained problem solvers.  Maybe you’re the PA who stays busy all th...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Feels stuck with helping challenging patients? Are curious how resilience affects overall health of a patient?  Do you want to learn simple tools to teach patients and improve their health?    My nam...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Prides yourself on being self-sufficient?  Do you find accepting help from others is hard for you?  Have you noticed your self-sufficiency is isolating you from others?    My name is Kristen Jardine....

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.  This episode is the first of a 3 part series on how to gain mastery of challenging patient encounters while addressing the needs of the person before you.     Are you a PA who has struggled with challenging patient encoun...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Feels the weight of responsibility in a demanding system?  Is experiencing mental burden and cynicism?  Are at the end of your rope and wondering how to keep going without quitting?    My name is Kri...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  rushes through challenging patient encounters?  Experience a knee jerk response to turf all difficult patients to behavioral health?  Or maybe you feel like a doormat when challenging patients come i...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     As a PA have you:   Experienced unexpected tragedy at work?  Found yourself drowning in the storms of life?  Or maybe you know another PA who has been through a sentinel event?    My name is Kristen Jardine. A Lifestyl...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Is tired of the negativity vortex emotional drain? Perhaps you struggle to rise above toxic work environments ?  Or maybe you’re a new PA who needs to learn valuable tools for a successful career?   ...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     As a PA:  Are you weary of patient entitlement?  Do you want to know how to convert the most dreadful visit into the most enjoyable one?   Or maybe you’re a new PA who needs to learn valuable tools handling challenging...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Are you frustrated with the healthcare systemt?  Struggling to find peace despite mediation and yoga?  Or, perhaps you feel like you’ve lost your sense of identity in the scope war?     My name is Kr...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who:  Is feeling overwhelmed at work?  Perhaps you struggle to stay calm and responsive instead of reactive in difficult situations?  Or maybe you’re a new PA who needs to learn valuable tools for a succes...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.   Are you a PA who:  Has ever groaned about seeing a particular kind of patient?  Found yourself trying to exit a room as quickly as possible when a patient encounter is difficult?  Perhaps you have that one, or maybe more...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.   Are you a PA who is:  has achieved much, yet feel like something is missing?  You've tried so many strategies, but deep down you feel empty inside?  Show the world a masque that everything is "ok" yet secretly struggle w...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who is:  has achieved much, yet feel like something is missing?  You've tried so many strategies, but deep down you feel empty inside?  Show the world a masque that everything is "ok" yet secretly struggle...

Welcome to TheCompassionRX a podcast inspired by my personal experience with burnout and witness to the desperate need for more compassion and humanity in the healthcare system.     Are you a PA who is:  has achieved much, yet feel like something is missing?  You've tried so many strategies, but deep down you feel empty inside?  Show the world a masque that everything is "ok" yet secretly struggle...