The ongoing challenges within the U.S. health care system continue to pose an existential threat to clinician well-being, with mounting pressures leading to increased rates of depression, anxiety, burnout, moral distress, moral injury, trauma, grief, etc.
The Health Care Professional Well-Being toolkit provides resources that clinicians and teams can use to support well-being. CAPC firmly believes that it is the responsibility of organization, state, and federal leaders to create a more supportive and sustainable environment for health care clinicians. We have included individual resources to normalize your experiences and help bridge the gap if you are struggling. However, we urge leaders to consider participating in advocacy and initiatives that can help change the U.S. health care landscape.
CAPC offers confidential, open-to-all Debriefing sessions in which participants can share the challenges of their work and discuss coping strategies.Register.
What’s in the Toolkit
Individual Clinician Resources: If You Have 5-10 Minutes
Activities, videos, and practices for individual clinicians that can be completed in 5-10 minutes.
Self-Care Checklist
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A self-care checklist for any person working in difficult settings.
Dealing with GRIEF: A Series of Five Short, Powerful Videos
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2-5 minute videos on acknowledging and coping with grief, and downloadable guides for health professionals. Created by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, the Association of Professional Chaplains, and the Oncology Nursing Society.
Individual Clinician Resources: If You Have 30-60 Minutes
Activities, videos, and practices for individual clinicians that can be completed in 30-60 minutes.
Well-Being Debriefing to Address the Challenges of Our Work
Join CAPC for these unique, informal, facilitated discussions where you can share common reactions to your demanding work and coping strategies that can diminish the consequences of this stress. Confidential and open to all.
Team Wellness Planning: Cultivate Safety for Your Team
Team leaders play a significant role in creating an emotionally safe environment for their team. These resources include discrete programs and structural changes to improve clinician well-being over time.
3 Proactive Strategies for Retaining a Passionate Palliative Care Team
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Simple steps that palliative care leaders can take to encourage team engagement and inclusivity, and help identify risks of unexpected departures.
Wellness and Workforce Recruitment and Retention Strategies
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This on-demand session explores the relationship between recruitment and retention and present data that suggests that recruitment and retention strategies are not “one size fits all” among disciplines.
Demystifying Team Resilience: How to Change the Narrative and Address Well-Being
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In this on-demand webinar, the presenters explore the resilience narrative as it applies to team dynamics, and identify best practices to assess team resilience and well-being.
Tips for Health Care Leaders to Address Moral Injury
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These tip sheets shared by Wendy Dean, MD provide practical ideas for leaders dealing with the impact of the pandemic and looking to reduce the challenges health care workers are facing.
National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Resource Compendium for Health Care Worker Well-Being
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Resources from the NAM Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, organized into six essential elements: 1) Advance Organizational Commitment 2) Strengthen Leadership Behaviors 3) Conduct Workplace Assessment 4) Examine Policies and Practices 5) Enhance Workplace Efficiency 6) Cultivate a Culture of Connection and Support
Well-Being Buddy System: A Template for Health Care Organizations
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Strategy, process, sample staff communications, and 'conversation checklists' for implementing a buddy system to support clinician well-being during COVID-19. Shared by the Mount Sinai Health System.
Sample presentation for clinicians and managers on well-being. Shared by the Mount Sinai Health System, where it was delivered as a CME activity to staff.
Based on available literature and consensus among leading suicide prevention experts, this article from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement highlights three actions health care leaders can take to support workforce mental health and well-being.
Creating a more sustainable workforce is a structural issue and requires systems-level advocacy. These resources support leadership development and connections with others working to support larger well-being efforts.
National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience
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This NAM Action Collaborative focuses on systems-level action to improve clinician well-being and resilience. This website contains resources to improve organizational capacity to support health care workers. There is also an opportunity to join this collaborative to participate in national advocacy.
Addressing Health Worker Burnout: The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce
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Advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General on action steps that all stakeholders (including payers and policymakers) must take to address the crisis of burnout, exhaustion, and moral distress across the health community.
Insights from health care and military experts on how the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating burnout in health care professionals, and strategies to make it through this uncertain time.
Health Care Workers in Crisis: Efforts Toward Normalizing A Sustainable Workplace Culture
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Health Affairs blog by Rebekah Gee, CAPC's Diane Meier, and co-authors on the stigma attached to seeking help in US health care, and the need for systems and culture change in support of clinician well-being. July 10, 2020.
Cultivating Resiliency as a Palliative Care Program Leader
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On-demand webinar that covers resilience from several perspectives: 1) taking steps towards work-life balance 2) recognizing burnout and fostering resilience in oneself as a program leader 3) role of the care program leader in addressing team burnout.
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