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Connection & Belonging in the workplace - how do we create it?

WRaPEM Podcast

This is part 2 of the Wellness Week 2021 podcast on Connection and Belonging. Today I continue the discussion with Charley, Una and Shahina. We discuss how we create this sense of connection and belonging, whose responsibility is it, and what are the barriers to creating it.

Connection and Belonging - Part 1 - What does it mean in our workplaces?

WRaPEM Podcast

This is part 1 of a 2 part podcast series where I have the pleasure of discussing these concepts with some of the WRaPEM team. In part 1 we discuss what connection and belonging mean to us at work and what it looks like.

Learning from medical error

WRaPEM Podcast

In this episode Mel Rule interviews FACEM Dr Kim Hansen. Her particular interests within EM include quality improvement and patient safety, especially monitoring and learning from adverse events. Mel and Kim discuss dealing with medical error from the perspective of a health professional, who has made the error. She shares some great practical tips on how to deal with what is always an extremely challenging situation.

Incivility and its impact on patient care

WRaPEM Podcast

In this podcast Mel Rule interviews FACEM Clare Skinner who is the Director of EM at Hornsby Kuring-Gai Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales. They discuss in-civility in the workplace and its impact on our ability to provide good patient care.

Staff Wellbeing in the COVID era - part 2

WRaPEM Podcast

In this episode we discuss tips for maintaining individual wellbeing in the face of COVID19, how to support our colleagues overcome the stress and anxiety generated by this pandemic and how to tackle that sense of loss autonomy that we all feel to some degree in the context of this pandemic.

Health Care Worker Wellbeing during COVID-19

WRaPEM Podcast

In this WRaPEM podcast we have Dr Una Harrington, Dr Melanie Rule, Dr Charlie McNabb and Dr Ashwini Amaratunga discussing:

Compassion, Cognition and Complex decision making - with Dr Fiona Kerr

WRaPEM Podcast

Alex Markwell interviews key note speaker Dr Fiona Kerr. They discuss how the neuropsychology of health care professionals affects their ability to provide patient care. Fiona highlights the importance of cultivating Empathy, Compassion and Agency for optimal function in our roles as healthcare professionals. Its a fascinating insight into the neuroscience behind what we do every day and how we can nurture behaviours that will result in more sustainable careers and the provision of better patient care.

Effective reflective practice for performance optimisation

WRaPEM Podcast

In this episode Una, Shahina and Ash interview Dr Jason Brooks of Phenomenal Docs about the role of effective reflective practice for performance optimisation, and how to approach it. They discuss strategies for reflection, which can be adopted even within the significant time constraints we all face in busy Emergency Departments.

Bringing your best self to work - some practical tips for the days when bringing your "A Game" seems impossible.

WRaPEM Podcast

In this episode Una and Shahina interview Dr Jason Brooks of Phenomenal Docs about the challenge of bringing your "A Game" to work everyday. They discuss some practical tips for the days when you feel like you can only bring your "C or D Game" in to work. For more information please checkout Jason’s websitehttps://phenomenaldocs.com

Teaching Performance Optimisation in a Healthcare Setting

WRaPEM Podcast

In this episode Una and Shahina interview Dr Jason Brooks of Phenomenal Docs about the challenges of teaching performance optimisation in a healthcare setting. Jason is a performance coach who has done extensive coaching and consulting with physicians and understands the performance challenges of the profession - and how to help deal with them effectively. They share some great practical tips.

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