Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 13 September
13:00 - 13:50
Being a healthcare professional in both paediatric and adult hospitals will mean being exposed to human tragedies and stressful events involving conflict, misunderstanding and moral distress. Such experiences are obviously compounded amidst the COVID-19 health pandemic. In healthcare, there are a number of established structured reflective discussion approaches designed to support clinicians process and make sense of their feelings and experiences and to mitigate against direct and vicarious trauma. In this seminar, I will highlight key features (goals, underpinning theory and methods of facilitation) of these 4 reflective discussion approaches and how they might be used following a stressful incident: 1. Psychological first aid, 2. Critical incident stress de-briefing, 3. Ethics review, and 4. Clinical supervision. Each of the four approaches seeks to acknowledge the stressful nature of professional work, and to support staff to develop sustainable skills so they can grow and thrive as professionals. Each approach also has the potential to open up feelings of uncertainty, frustration, sorrow, anguish, and moral distress for participants. It is therefore, that it is crucial a facilitator has the specific skills required to safely lead the discussion, and is clear about the nature, scope and safe application of each approach.
Professor Clare Delany
Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, and
Clinical Ethicist at Royal Children’s Hospital and Peter MacCallum Centre
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Due to current Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, this seminar will take place online via Zoom.
Meeting ID: https://otago.zoom.us/j/922351556
Password: 595584
To those joining online, we ask that you please mute yourself upon arrival to avoid accidental interruptions.