Ep 3: Allow yourself to be the patient sometimes
Description
Kara Acheson is a healthcare practitioner with over 15 years of experience. She discusses the impacts of burnout in healthcare and the importance of ensuring that frontline workers have safe places to build mental wellness practices.
TW: Loss of patient, postpartum depression
Resources:
Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers
Care for Caregivers: Recognizing Burnout
Care for Caregivers: Stress Strategies
SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters
Time Stamps:
0:03 – Welcome
0:15 – Care to Listen intro
0:23 – Ad for Care to Speak
0:52 – Trigger warnings notification
1:01 – Land Acknowledgement
1:10 – Guest introduction
2:39 – Importance of safe spaces for mental health
4:16 – Recognition of challenges adding up
5:51 – Suppressing and avoiding our emotions
6:40 – Trigger Warning: Loss of patient
7:45 – Sharing your story now
8:23 – Workplace culture and supports
9:34 – Taking the time to access those supports
10:59 – What are my options at this time?
11:45 – Reminding myself why it’s important
12:13 – Stigma in the workplace
12:23 – Trigger Warning: Loss of patient
13:00 – Taking the time to process
13:50 – Providing staff opportunity and space for support
15:14 – Key take away messages
15:55 – Strategies that you use to prevent burnout
18:44 – Workplace dynamics of not taking the time
20:29 – Incivility in the workplace
22:03 – Demands of personal life
23:24 –Trigger Warning: Postpartum depression
25:34 – Extra supports available
26:10 – Asking for help/accessing support
27:22 – Learnings from your experience
27:58 – Trigger Warning: Loss in family
29:01 – Closing
This podcast is brought to you by:
Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers
Care2Listen Podcast | Care For Caregivers
CMHA British Columbia – Mental Health for All
CheckingIn | Mental wellbeing for your workplace
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