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. 

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.

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. She has been involved with ACEM's Queensland Faculty, Quality subcommittee, the Emergency Medicine Events Register and International Federation for Emergency Medicine's (IFEM) Quality and Safety Special Interest Group. 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. 

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. 

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. 

In this WRaPEM podcast we have Dr Una Harrington, Dr Melanie Rule, Dr Charlie McNabb and Dr Ashwini Amaratunga discussing: 1. How we can adapt our approach to Health Care Worker Wellbeing in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic 2. Ideas for how to approach Health Care Worker Wellbeing at a departmental level in the face of COVID-19 They share some great ideas and practical tips on how to adapt your thinking and practical approach to staff wellbeing in these trying times. 

In this podcast recorded at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Alex Markwell interviews key note speaker Dr Fiona Kerr (http://www.fiona-kerr.com). Fiona is the founder of  The NeuroTech Institute (https://www.theneurotechinstitute.com). They discuss how the neuropsychology of health care professionals affects their ability to provide patient care. They discuss factors that impact our ability to make complex decisions, in particular the effect of human connections. 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. 

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. 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 for dealing with those particularly tough days at work. For more information please checkout Jason’s website – https://phenomenaldocs.com  

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. 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 and the lessons they have learnt along the way. For more information please checkout Jason’s websitehttps://phenomenaldocs.com

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 and the lessons they have learnt along the way. For more information please checkout Jason's website Phenomenal Docs at https://phenomenaldocs.com

This is the 2nd podcast we have recorded for Wellness Week 2019. Dr Una Harrington talks to Dr Alex Markwell and Dr Melanie Rule about how we can approach creating change at an organisational level when it comes to Health care professionals wellbeing. They discuss some practical tips and lessons learned. 

This is the first of a number of podcasts that are we have created in preparation for Wellness Week 2019 which starts on the 7th of April. We at Wrap EM have collaborated with ACEM and ACEP in the USA and multiple other countries worldwide to celebrate WW 2019. This year for Wellness Week WRaP EM aims to evolve the conversation beyond the individual. There is now increasing evidence to suggest that the main factors contributing towards burnout in physicians and nurses lie at the interface where the individual physician and health organization connect. We also want to put the focus on the “P” in WRaP, and we also want to consider performance at an organisational level.  To that end in this podcast Dr Una Harrington chats to Dr  Shahina Braganza and Dr Melanie Rule about how wellness relates to performance. 

This is the first official WRaPEM podcast. It was recorded at a Mindfulness Train the Trainer course run by Associate Professor Dr Craig Hassad in Brisbane. Dr Shahina Braganza, Kate Jurd and Dr Ashwini Amaratunga sit down with him afterwards to summarise the pearls from the day. We go over what Mindfulness is and its potential role in the lives of busy health professionals.

Dr Emma Horrocks interviews the esteemed Dr David Cooksley, about what he loves about Emergency medicine. It highlights how important it is to identify what we love about our work and fuel that passion.  He shares some incredible stories from his years of experience and some pearls of wisdom!