Recommendations for supporting healthcare workers' psychological well-being: Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic

01/31/24 at 04:00 AM

Recommendations for supporting healthcare workers' psychological well-being: Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic
Healthc Manage Forum, by Melissa B KormanLisa Di ProsperoTracey DasGuptaMark SinyorSamantha J AnthonyMonika KastnerJanet EllisRosalie SteinbergRobert Maunder; 1/30/24 
Healthcare workers are at risk of adverse mental health outcomes due to occupational stress. Many organizations introduced initiatives to proactively support staff's psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, ... [such as] the STEADY wellness program, ... in a large trauma centre in Toronto, Canada. Program implementors engaged teams in peer support sessions, psychoeducation workshops, critical incident stress debriefing, and community-building initiatives. ... [This] article describes recommendations for future hospital wellness programs.

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