Insights Huddles
Insights Huddles are a forum for leaders, learners and advocates to share their bold voices and valuable insights. A mix between a webinar and conversation, everyone from hospital executives to frontline clinicians are invited to set titles aside and put safety first. Together, we can spark big ideas and drive meaningful change for the safety and wellbeing of team members across our health systems. Learn more about the Heart of Safety Declaration of Principles that guide our conversations.
Our next Insights Huddle: Lessons from palliative care to support care team wellbeing
Palliative care does more than assemble an interdisciplinary team of experts for patients and families facing the complexities of serious illness. It questions one of the core premises of healthcare: that death is a failure. In doing so, palliative care helps to upend some of the harmful mechanisms by which trauma happens to care team members and creates compassionate opportunities for meaningful connection. Jennifer K. Clark, MD, palliative care physician, consultant and author of the book Suffer, leads the work to bring palliative care’s signature of positive disruptive change to health system transformation. In this Insights Huddle she will lead participants through how to break the patterns of fear and blame that create unnecessary suffering for healthcare professionals, and how to support true interdisciplinary team-based care that supports safety and wellbeing.
Trauma-informed leadership
By understanding trauma at work and its impact on care team wellbeing, healthcare leaders can recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma, respond with compassion and trauma-informed care, and actively resist retraumatization.
Addressing drivers of healthcare worker suicide
Two representatives from the American Hospital Association (AHA) share insights and interventions from the AHA’s Health Care Worker Suicide Prevention Guide.
Collaborative just culture
Embark on collaborative accountability mechanisms that make it safe for team members to report risk and hold leaders accountable for creating safe conditions for system reliabilty and human resilience.
Virtual nursing: a wellbeing and retention strategy
Some hospitals and health systems are implementing virtual nursing to address staff shortages, improve care team workloads, and support physical and cognitive wellbeing.
Mitigate leader loneliness
Research suggests that healthcare leaders experience a recurring cycle of loneliness that can lead to isolation, reduced self-care, compromised decision making, team stress and more isolation.
Remove mental health stigma from credentialing
This ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare campaign, led by the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, helps healthcare organizations audit and update credentialing questions to remove stigmatizing mental health language.
Health equity as quality
Lou Hart, MD, Medical Director of Health Equity, Yale New Haven Health System, explains why health equity must be part of mainstream quality systems and processes to improve psychological and emotional safety for care team members.
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