Restoring Humanity in Healthcare by Addressing Moral Suffering
Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
Release Date: 12/06/2021
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Thank you for joining us for this special episode of Good Tech Compassionate Healthcare. In May of 2024, AMS Healthcare was thrilled to convene 170 healthcare stakeholders from across Ontario to delve into the timely and ethical scaling of AI in our healthcare sector. The insights we gained were invaluable. The conference revealed a consensus that there is an urgent need to deploy AI solutions in the most capacity-challenged areas of our healthcare system, particularly in primary care. This move is crucial to reducing workforce burnout and improving workflows. Many of the leaders that we spoke...
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Thank you for joining us for this special episode of Good Tech Compassionate Healthcare. In May of 2024, AMS Healthcare was thrilled to convene 170 healthcare stakeholders from across Ontario to delve into the timely and ethical scaling of AI in our healthcare sector. The insights we gained were invaluable. The conference revealed a consensus that there is an urgent need to deploy AI solutions in the most capacity-challenged areas of our healthcare system, particularly in primary care. This move is crucial to reducing workforce burnout and improving workflows. Many of the leaders that we spoke...
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info_outlineIn this conversation Ed Spilg, Geriatrician at the Ottawa Hospital and Research Chair in Physician Wellness at the University of Ottawa and an AMS Phoenix Fellow and Cynda Rushton, a Nurse and Professor of Bioethics and Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University discuss moral distress, moral resilience, and mental health in healthcare workers amidst the Covid 19 Pandemic.
If you would like more information on Ed and Cynda and the important work that they are doing here are some links to get you started.
Ed Spilg
Geriatrician in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital, Assistant Professor and
Research Chair in Physician Wellness in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa,
Senior Clinical Investigator in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research
Institute, and an AMS Phoenix Fellow
Cynda Rushton
Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of
Bioethics and the School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s
Department of Pediatrics
Book
Rushton, C. H. (Author & Ed) (2018) Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare. New York: Oxford University Press. (American Journal of Nursing/Elsevier Book of
the Year First Place Award in the category of professional issues 2020).
https://tinyurl.com/2h6ez5bu
Resources for clinicians
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-021-03637-w
https://www.cma.ca/physician-wellness-hub
https://www.cma.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/Moral-Distress-E.pdf
AACN Facebook Live: I’m not ok—Dealing with the baggage of a prolonged pandemic
Rushton Moral Resilience Scale
Moral Stress Amongst Healthcare Workers DURING COVID-19: A Guide to Moral Injury. Centre of Excellence on PTSD, 2020.
https://www.moralinjuryguide.ca/