Kindness, Curiosity and Comfortable Shoes
Working in healthcare is hardwork; on top of that the media, especially social media, will only spread negative thoughts about the state of healthcare.
This podcast aims to help with both of those: a bit of positivity, a few helpful thoughts to improve your work, all starting with kindness, curiosity and comfortable shoes.
A JMAC education production
Kindness, Curiosity and Comfortable Shoes
Compassion
Compassion
Most people enter work in healthcare because they have a strong sense of compassion – that emotional response to someone’s pain or suffering and wanting to help them.
Why do we sometimes lose compassion in our journey in healthcare?
The Professional Quality of Life Scale can be found at https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/compassion-satisfaction-and-fatigue-stamm-2009.pdf
It is worth having a look at this and thinking about your responses to these questions looking at compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.
A helpful podcast that explains compassion in more detail is the Somerset Emotional Wellbeing podcast episode on compassion.
Finally if you want to delve into the evidence behind the need for more compassion in healthcare I can thoroughly recommend:
Compassionomics: The revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference. Studer Group 2019. Trzeciak and Mazzarelli or find out more on www.compassionomics.com
What are you going to spend 40 seconds doing to show your compassion today?
Thanks for listening,
James
@JMACeducation
