Prioritising workforce wellbeing and resilience: What COVID-19 is reminding us about self-care and staff support

Mills, Jason; Ramachenderan, Jonathan; Chapman, Michael; Greenland, Rohan; Agar, Meera

doi:10.1177/0269216320947966

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“…Moreover, Mills et al (2020, p. 2) recommends ‘developing a personalised self‐care plan’ and explains that ‘effective self‐care practice involves self‐awareness, self‐compassion, and the implementation of a variety of strategies across physical, social, and inner self‐care domains’. Self‐care practices can minimise anxiety and the risk factors of PTSD (Barello et al, 2020).…”

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“…The Pause can be downloaded from the App Store. Other self‐care practices can range from debriefing with colleagues after a demanding shift, to accessing support from employee assistance programmes if available in the workplace, to conversations with family and friends, or seeing a therapist for professional support (Mills et al, 2020).…”

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“…Nurse leaders therefore need to ensure front‐line nurses are prepared to provide safe and quality care for patients with COVID‐19, and end‐of‐life care (EOLC) as needed. This means personalised self‐care plans must be a priority (Mills et al, 2020) to ease nurses' anxiety due to caregiving in the context of COVID‐19.…”

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Strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence so they understand and address sources of anxiety among nurses practising in the era of COVID‐19

Hofmeyer

Taylor

2020

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims Identify strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence to improve quality of care and to ease the psychological toll on nurses caring for patients with COVID‐19. Background In a 2020 report, clinicians caring for patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic said their healthcare leaders needed to: ‘hear me, protect me, prepare me, support me, and care for me’. These words provide an action plan for nurse leaders to communicate, educate, and support nurses to practice competently and safely (physically and mentally) in the context of COVID‐19. Design Discursive paper. Method Identification and inclusion of relevant international evidence with clinical discussion. Findings Nurse leaders can mobilise system and individual level strategies and resources to support nurses to manage pandemic‐related issues including: anxiety due to the risk of infection, supporting anxious children, mitigating moral injury; providing safe and quality nursing care for patients with COVID‐19 and end‐of‐life care as needed; supporting relatives who cannot be present with a dying relative, and care for grieving relatives and colleagues. We categorise a selection of evidence‐based, online sources providing current COVID‐19 information, practice updates, and resources to develop personalised self‐care plans to ease anxiety and support renewal and resilience. Conclusions Nurse leaders must ensure adequate PPE supply, upskill nurses to provide safe, quality care for patients with COVID‐19, and promote restorative self‐care plans. Relevance to clinical practice The strategic actions nurse leaders take today can positively impact nurses’ wellbeing and ability to provide safe and quality care for patients in the context of COVID‐19.

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Strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence so they understand and address sources of anxiety among nurses practising in the era of COVID‐19

Hofmeyer

Taylor

2020

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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121

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“…Stress and burnout in all types of integrative health and palliative care providers, therefore, are becoming increasingly problematic during the COVID-19 pandemic. 8 A considerable proportion of health care workers, for example, are experiencing mood and sleep disturbances during the COVID-19 outbreak, including high prevalence rates of depression, anxiety, and insomnia. 9 As Rachel Naomi Remen noted *20 years before the onset of COVID-19, ''The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily, and not be touched by it, is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.''…”

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Integrative Palliative Care: A New Transformative Field to Alleviate Suffering

Chiaramonte

Adler

2020

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Integrative palliative care physician Delia Chiaramonte, MD, first suggested this special issue to me in a week in which I learned that integrative health researcher and educator Shelley Adler, PhD, was working on the same topic for what would become a March 2019 JACM commentary from the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Medicine. I connected the two then learned that Chiaramonte and Adler had served together as cochairs of the Education Working Group of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. They proved a perfect team, combining Chiaramonte's clinical experience as the medical director of integrative and palliative medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center/Gilchrist, and Adler's rich research and education experience as director of the University of California San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. The commentary Adler coauthored, published as ''Integrative Palliative Care: Enhancing the Natural Synergy Between Integrative Health and Palliative Medicine,'' provided context for this special issue. We pulled together a fine special issue editorial team that offered insights, connections, and reviewing talents. We were pleased to see the broad and global set of *40 submissions that were drawn by the call to papers, leading to these selections. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed, and contributed.

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“…The latest scientific articles discuss self-care promotion and enhance the HCP psychological resilience in pandemic emphasizing the meaning of self-care process planning (Mills, Ramachenderan, Chapman, Greenland, & Agar, 2020), ability of the leading specialists to promote subordinate self-care , different self-care daily practices (such as sleep hygiene, exercise, seeking for help, stay connected with others etc. ), mindfulness meditation (Heath, Sommerfield, & von Ungern-Sternberg, 2020;.…”

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Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Self-Care Strategies of Healthcare Professionals During Covid-19 Pandemic in Latvia

Bundzena-Ervika

Mārtinsone

Perepjolkina

et al. 2021

SIE

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As the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19 continues, health-care professionals (HCP) have been exposed to different hazards, and there is a need to explore psychological resilience in crisis situations, and to give recommendations for its strengthening. The aim of this study was to examine relationship between psychological resilience and self-care strategies in HCP of Latvia, controlling for gender and age during Covid-19 pandemic, and to determine whether the psychological resilience and self-care strategies differ between HCP and professionals in other fields (POF) unrelated to healthcare. Method. The sample consisted of 1723 employees, who during the state of emergency continued to work in their profession; they were divided in two groups - 77 HCP (18 men, 59 women, age M = 46.23 (SD = 14.43)) and 1646 POF (720 men, 926 women, age M = 44.98 (SD = 11.93)) as comparison group. Specific data of national representative cross-sectional online survey (N = 2608), performed in July, 2020, were selected – demographic items, 7 items forming Psychological Resilience Scale and 17 item forming Self–care Strategies Questionnaire (consist of 4 scales: “Spiritual resources”, “Social support”, “Free time activities”, “Time management”). Results. “Time management” was only predictive for Self-care strategy for psychological resilience in both HCP and POF group. Neither age nor gender predicted psychological resilience in HCP group. No statistically significant differences for major variables between HCP and POF were found. Conclusions. The results suggest that performing such Self-care activity as time management can help to promote psychological resilience of the employees regardless of profession. Given the workload of HCP in pandemic, this is an important result. HCP psychological resilience and used self-care strategies during COVID-19 are not different from POF.

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Prioritising workforce wellbeing and resilience: What COVID-19 is reminding us about self-care and staff support

Abstract: The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily, and not be touched by it, is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.

Cited by 55 publications

References 18 publications

Strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence so they understand and address sources of anxiety among nurses practising in the era of COVID‐19

Strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence so they understand and address sources of anxiety among nurses practising in the era of COVID‐19

Integrative Palliative Care: A New Transformative Field to Alleviate Suffering

Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Self-Care Strategies of Healthcare Professionals During Covid-19 Pandemic in Latvia

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