Serious Illness Debriefings for Healthcare Providers
- Speaker:
- Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Nov 15, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS078899
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Healthcare providers caring for people with serious illness may witness moments of patient suffering and distress, leading to various emotions. Natural experiences of sadness, frustration, grief, guilt, or isolation can occur. One pathway to mitigate the distress is through social support, which can come in the form of end-of-life debriefings.
Peer facilitated debriefings offer intentional time for the healthcare team to talk about the impact of their, a key factor in maintain meaning and purpose. This evidence-based strategy normalizes, validates and supports individuals throughout their work and career. This in turn can directly impact the supportive culture and coping strategies of a group, unit, or institution.
This presentation will review the strong evidence that supports debriefing programs and highlight the impact these have on staff attrition. Evidence suggest that having opportunities to increase collegial support and affirmation, along with learning coping strategies can significantly impact moral distress and improve patient care. Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C, will discuss the expectable consequences of working in healthcare, the use of self-reflection in understanding our reactions, and how ongoing debriefings seek to support clinical staff throughout their careers.
Finally, you will take away key aspects to design, implement and maintain a peer debriefing program. Tending to issues such as institutional resistance, managerial support, and equity of practice. You will receive a useful guide to implement debriefings in your own workplace.
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Speaker
Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C Related seminars and products
Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C, is a palliative care consultant and an adjunct instructor at the UNC School of Social Work, Chapel Hill. With over thirty-five years of clinical practice experience in oncology, palliative care, and hospice, Vickie presents on topics such as moral distress and resilience to national educational organizations and institutions. Recently she served as the executive director of SWHPN and prior to that as the executive director of the Advanced Palliative Care & Hospice Social Work Certification (APHSW) board, an organization which oversees the implementation and administration of this evidence-based certification. Vickie’s work has been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (JPSM), Journal of Palliative Medicine and other journals with a focus on moral distress and resilience. She is on the editorial board of Social Work in Health Care Journal and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Practical Bioethics. She is an editor of the book Mirrors & Windows: Reflections of the Journey in Serious Illness Practice and co-author of Helping Children Cope when Someone they Love has a Serious Illness.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Victoria Leff receives compensation as a palliative care consultant and trainer. She is an adjunct instructor with Smith School of Social Work and an adjunct professor with Wuzueiler School of Social Work. Victoria Leff receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Victoria Leff is a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work. She serves as an associate editor with Social Work in Healthcare Journal.
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Objectives
- Evaluate the evidence on the validity and usefulness of healthcare debriefings.
- Determine successful strategies to mitigate expectable stress working in healthcare.
- Incorporate resources to implement a debriefing program at your place of work.
- Analyze the role of self-awareness to mitigate and understand distress.
Outline
Expectable Emotional and Relational Consequences Working in Serious Illness Care- Why we have reactions to emotions of patients/families/colleagues
- The importance of using this understanding to improve clinical practice
- Review of literature and evidence
- Challenges to using this foundation
- Understand disenfranchised stress
- Challenge the paradigm of resilience to sustainability
- Reduce isolation
- Validate and normalize emotions and distress
- Underscore support from institution
- Goal of debriefings
- Making the case for debriefings
- Role and purpose of peer facilitator
- Prepare your stance with support from the evidence
- Logistical challenges such as finding the time and managerial buy in
- Tips and suggestions
- Brief guide for implementation provided
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Nurses
- Physicians
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