The mental health and wellbeing of healthcare practitioners : research and practice /
"In 2015 I started working at a medical school, it was an important move for me as I wanted to be part of how doctors were trained, not only to ensure patients get the best possible care but also to understand how we can support doctors in practicing their profession without being harmed by it....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In 2015 I started working at a medical school, it was an important move for me as I wanted to be part of how doctors were trained, not only to ensure patients get the best possible care but also to understand how we can support doctors in practicing their profession without being harmed by it. I hadn't taken up a research post, but I had come along with a research idea, I wanted to know how it was that doctors (at this stage of my thinking) could practice for years, see terrible and upsetting things daily, and not be affected by it. I had carried out some literature searches and found concepts like compassion fatigue and burnout, I'd read reports of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in emergency responders, but what I hadn't seen was a systematic approach to understanding what was happening to doctors, and how we could combat it"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 164 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119609568 1119609569 9781119609551 1119609550 9781119609537 1119609534 |