Workplace Wellness: From Resiliency to Suicide Prevention and Grief Management: A Practical Guide To Supporting Healthcare Professionals

ISBN-13: 9783031169823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 408 str.

Judy Davidson; Marcus Richardson

Opis

This book uniquely provides actionable strategies along the wellness continuum in multiple dimensions: personal, institutional and professional; while applicable across disciplines: nursing and allied health, advanced practice providers and physicians. Further, the content is presented in a manner that can be taught to those entering the workforce, or serve as a primer for Wellness Officers. 

Most mental health texts focus on the needs of patients and ignore the mental health needs of clinicians. This book fills that gap embracing wellness initiatives as a matter of mental health. Wellness strategies for Inclusion Diversity and Equity are presented. The often ignored subject of suicide is approached head-on with evidence-based strategies for prevention. At the far end of the continuum of wellness, grief management after losing a colleague to death and/or suicide will be addressed. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a brief presentation of the science, application of principles into wellness practice, opportunities for future research and discussion questions. Artwork created by healthcare workers are included to augment transfer of knowledge through art as a way of knowing. Videos are offered to demonstrate through simulation lessons taught through the book.

Spis treści

Prologue: The Continuum: Judy E. Davidson DNP RN

Preface to the book 

Chapter 1. The Balance of Building Resiliency

Isabel Newton MD

Maintaining resiliency is a constant effort with ebbs and flows, setting realistic intentions. 

Chapter 2. Adapting Cognitive-Based Therapy Approaches to Resiliency for Healthworkers

Bernadette Melnyk PhD RN

Describes the MINDBODYSTRONG tested approach to resiliency amongst healthcare workers

Chapter 3. Art as a Wellness Initiative

Linda Lobbestael MS RN

Describes how art can be used as a soothing and team building process. How to use process art in the workplace to bring teams together. How to learn through art as a joyous experience. 

Chapter 4. Mindfulness and the Mind

Judy Davidson DNP RN

Presents practical tips for using mindfulness in the workplace to enhance resiliency and coping with stressful situations. Each example will be appropriate for those working in hectic environments overcoming the barrier of ‘time’. 

Chapter 5. Animal Therapy for Clinicians

Heather Abrahim PhD RN

Describing the physiologic benefits of animal therapy and how that can be applied to the workforce. Use of intentional oxytocin stimulating interactions to enhance ability to have difficult conversations. 

Chapter 6. The Chemistry of Nutrition

Jennifer Nemeth BSN RN

How to apply principles of healthy nutrition in the busy work environment. How to modify nutritional services within a healthcare organization to hardwire healthy eating habits amongst co-workers. 

Chapter 7. Fitness at the Workplace

Christina Dinh DPT

Present fitness activities that can be incorporated into breaks and/or team huddles and the physiologic benefit of each one specifically chosen for healthcare workers. 

Chapter 8. The Healing Environment

Jan Stichler PhD RN, Clare Dickens RNMH  MA 

Environmental modifications to soothe the spirit while working. Includes considerations for art, color, temperature, texture, lighting. Developing a Life Safety Plan: Who will help you when…..: 

Present options for life safety plan templates, instructions and rationale for use. 

Why completing your own safety plan can help you support a struggling colleague. 

Chapter 9. Empathic Communication Part I: Responding to Stress in the Workplace

Sharon Tucker PhD RN/Judy E. Davidson DNP RN

Present the principles of empathic communication for supporting colleagues in the work environment who have experienced a difficult or traumatic event. The use of ‘coffee-chats’. How to break the ice when opening a conversations. Do’s and don’ts for empathic communication.

Chapter 10. Empathic Communication Part II: Responding to Errors Empathically

Tim McDonald MD/Belinda Hein JD.

How to debrief after a medical error to avoid blame and consequences of blame, reducing organizational risk. Do’s and don’ts to mitigate risk of litigation while optimally supporting staff. 

Chapter 11. The Process of Using Simulation to Teach Empathic Communication

Alana Iglewicz MD

How to use simulation as a technique to teach communication. The importance of communication training with incoming tech-native healthcare workers. The lost art of FTF communication.  

Chapter 12. The Power of Micro-Affirmations

Desiree Shapiro MD/Judy Davidson DNP RN

How to structure your practice to bolster the use of micro-affirmations to increase positivity in the workplace. 

Chapter 13. Eradicating Racism and Discriminatory Behavior while Authentically Restructuring the Workplace to Promote Inclusion Diversity and Equity

Caryn Rubanovich PhD

How to conduct a workplace analysis to detect structural racism.  Activities to begin a culture shift towards inclusion.  Responding to racism when detected.  Allyism.

Chapter 14. Gender-Wellness

Peggy Chinn PhD RN

Problems to avoid related to gender discrimination in the workplace

Address the structural/environmental issues necessary for the biological needs of women in the workforce. 

Chapter 15. Patient Violence: Providing More than Duck and Cover Training to Protect Employees

Danisha Jenkins PhD RN

Going beyond duck and cover to creating a nurturing work environment intolerant of violence against staff. 

Chapter 16. Barriers to Recovery: Primary, Secondary, Vicarious, Cumulative and Institutional Trauma

Melissa Earley MS RN

Learning through the mistakes of others: Examples to avoid

Chapter 17. Shifting Culture Through Structured Peer Support

Susan Scott MSN RN

Evidence-based approaches to structured emotional first aid through a second-victim prevention program. 

Chapter 18. Bullying and Lateral Violence: Building a Process to Address Root Causes

Karen M. Oc’Connell PhD RN 

Going beyond identifying the problem to dealing with root causes. Cognitive Rehearsal and Bystander Training

Workplace compression and impact on anxiety and agitation. Competence issues leading to bully behaviors.

Chapter 19. Preventing and Addressing Moral Distress

Beth Epstein PhD RN

Evidence-based approaches to moral distress investigations using expanded scope of the Ethics Team.

Chapter 20. From Moral Failure to Chronic Disease. The Journey From Disease to Wellness

Marie Manthie PhD RN, Amanda Choflet DNP RN, Cadie Ayers

Chapter 21. Differentiating Burnout from Depression and Why We Care

Sidney Zisook MD 

The danger of confusing depression with burnout. Burnout as treatable through career modifications, while depression requiring mental health treatment. Under-treatment of depression as a risk factor for suicide. 

Chapter 22. Risk Detection and Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

Christine Moutier MD, Rachael Accardi LMFT, Courtney Sanchez LCSW

Chapter 23. Identifying and Intervening with a Suicidal Colleague

Sharon Tucker PhD RN

Chapter 24. Motivational Interviewing: A Skill for Life

Trisha Mims RN/Tari Dilks RN

How to use the process of motivational interviewing to have a colleague accept the need for treatment.  

Chapter 25. Grief and Grieving Part 1: Grieving our Patients, Rituals that Heal

Allison Kestenbaum, MDiv

Practical advice for those who lose patients and grieve their loss.  How to deal with cumulative grief through rituals in the workplace.  How to recognize a colleague who may need treatment to deal with prolonged grief. 

Chapter 26. Grief and Grieving Part 2: Healing those Left Behind After the Death of a Colleague

Sidney Zisook MD

How to process the grief of the workforce after losing a colleague. Dangers of not processing the grief.

O autorze

Dr. Judy E. Davidson, DNP RN MCCM FAAN is a Nurse Scientist within the Department of Nursing Education, Research and Development at the University of California San Diego, and Research Scientist within the Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine for the University of California San Diego. 

Her research is focused on issues of workplace wellness ranging from the consequences of blame, peer support, clinician suicide, and clinician suicide prevention. She tested the first nurse suicide prevention program modelled after what had previously been deployed for physicians. This program is now heralded as a best practice from the American Nurses Association.  

Marcus Groner-Richardson, BSN RN is a new graduate clinical nurse at University of California San Diego Health. He is a second-career nurse with previous experience in business management. Marcus currently works with Dr. Judy Davidson and her team on research and advocacy efforts centered around healthcare workplace wellness and suicide prevention.