Leaders experience emotional distress when they can’t help with staffing and work overload. So focus also on giving staff voice, justice and fairness, better conditions, self rostering, improving teamwork, better supervision meetings and education and training. That helps.
After lots of work from @AcpsNuh@NUHACPRandI@acpleadership and others we have now launched a framework to support a resourced and standardised approach to the development and career progression of NUH Advanced practitioners.
We cannot be effective agents or leaders of change in health & care without addressing issues of power. All inequality & all exclusion is an imbalance of power. Read the excellent "It's all about power" report by @SMKcampaigners: https://t.co/e6s72FCBh4 Thanks @CollaborateCIC
The Ugly: the impact of the pandemic on HCWs.
COVID has been tough on HCWs in anaesthesia and ICU and many of our community are not OK, which is entirely understandable when you consider what we have experienced:
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Yesterday I posted a graphic from @EmmaNeuropsych on how pandemic fatigue feels. It spoke to so many people. Emma has published a free eBook on how to stay calm in a global pandemic. It is a wonderful combination of science, wisdom & beautiful sketches: https://t.co/n4cKDDEPbJ
Thankyou for the most amazing, rewarding life in @NUHCriticalCare my home for 20 years plus! To say i will miss it is an understatement but i have exciting times ahead!Thanks for coming today to send me off in a mess! @NUHCritCareCNE @suehaines1 and the rest of the fab team x
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting a little bit of information about our Clinical Nurse Educators in Critical Care. We all have our own base units but work across campus. You may not have met us all so it will be nice to put a face to the names! @NUHCriticalCare
3 weeks into my redeployment to intensive care at @TeamNUH. What a amazing bunch of nurses I’ve worked with and supported me during a mentally challenging time working with covid 19 patients. I’m enjoying and learning new fundamental skills! Thank you @NUHCriticalCare 👩⚕️