Bernard Piprah discusses the importance of wellbeing in healthcare and how the culture of being overworked and busy has been normalized in the industry, leading to stigma around prioritizing self-care.

Time Stamps:

 0:03 – Welcome 

 0:15 – Goals of podcast series

 0:23 – Ad for Care to Speak 

 0:52 – Trigger warnings notification

 1:00 – Land Acknowledgement 

 1:10 – Guest introduction 

 3:42 – What are the challenges healthcare workers are facing?

 4:19 – Supporting patients with dementia and challenges both physical and mental

 5:29 – Culture of well-being in healthcare settings

 5:56 – What does counselling look like for healthcare workers that come to you? 

 6:45 – Exploring circumstances that prevent you from prioritizing well-being /Stigma

 8:05 – Acknowledging its ok to not be okay

 8:50 – Importance of starting from top of organization

 9:51 – Understanding what self care is 

11:45 – Culture and stigma at work

13:38 – Challenging the idea of being “tough”

14:41 – Rivalry between professions

16:25 – Not everyone will see things the same way 

17:49 – Understanding your benefits and resources

19:37 – How we evolve and our values evolve 

21:20 – Microaggressions in the workplace

25:17 – Tips/tools if a colleague approaches you for help

27:38 -  Care to Speak Line as resource 

28:11 – Connection not comparison 

29:06 – Closing 

Resources: 

Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers

Phone Resources

SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters

Dementia Care - SafeCare BC

Home and community care pocketbook | Violence in the workplace - SafeCare BC

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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

Phone Resources

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: 

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CheckingIn | Mental wellbeing for your workplace

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Dr. Heather Cooke has more than 20 years’ experience working in dementia care, in both a front-line and research capacity. Heather’s work is supported by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and WorkSafeBC. During this episode Sean and Heather discuss the significance about the nature and impact of workplace incivility on staff well-being and care delivery.

Resources:

Civility Matters Toolkit - SafeCare BC

Time Stamps:

0:02 - Welcome

0:22 - Land acknowledgement

0:39 - Guest introduction

3:24 – What is workplace civility?

4:18 – Impacts of workplace incivility in long term care settings

5:20 – System factors: gender lens

8:08 – Golden age of care – staffing shortage

9:03 – Toxic work environment

9:38 – Ad break – SafeCare BC

10:13 – How to mitigate incivility in the workplace

11:45 – Creating space for people to check in with one another

11:59 – Development of Civility Matters Toolkit

13:39 – Shift change can be a check in opportunity

15:33 – Care work is skilled teamwork

16:20 – Conditions of work are often the conditions of care

17:19 – What is the toolkit all about?

18:50 – Kindness card templates

19:50 – 11 scenarios

20:26 – Resources and videos with time stamps

21:35 – How the Toolkit can help

22:03 – We can change how we show up in the workplace

23:09 – Closing

This podcast is brought to you by:

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Home - SafeCare BC

CMHA British Columbia – Mental Health for All

CheckingIn | Mental wellbeing for your workplace

SafeCareBC.ca

Pierre Florendo is the Director of Care at Kiwanis Care Centre in New Westminster BC. During this episode Sean and Pierre discuss the difficulties of the pandemic, the mindset of working in continuing care, balancing work and family, and the importance of quality leadership.

To provide feedback or be featured in an upcoming episode - please connect with us at careforcaregivers.ca

Resources:

Recognizing Burnout | Care For Caregivers

Burnout response for leaders (workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com)

BC-CPC-LTC-Resources-HandoutSheet-002.pdf (careforcaregivers.ca)

camh_covid19_infosheet-talking_to_kids-pdf.pdf

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Welcome

0:22 - Land acknowledgement

1:23 - Guest introduction

2:11 - Beginning of the pandemic.

3:54 - What were the mental challenges that workers faced at the beginning of the pandemic?

5:44 - How did the support from the community impact the long-term care workers?

7:12 - How does the constant adaptations impact the team morale when it comes to working in long term care?

9:05 - Office turned into a bedroom.

10:50 - What was the fear of bringing home COVID-19?

11:59 - What does the industry and profession need in order to help process and work through those emotions from your perspective?

13:00 - It is okay to take time off for yourself.

13:59 - Important for leaders to show vulnerability.

15:07 - Advertisement Break

16:11 - What other supports are needed within the industry and profession to support the mental health of your industry?

17:38 - What do you think of when you think of home and then how do we bring that to our current setup for long-term care?

19:05 - What’s preventing or stopping different care homes changing their culture?

21:00 - Heroes are human too.

21:50 - Thank you for sharing your story.

This podcast is brought to you by:

Home | Care For Caregivers

Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers

Care2Listen Podcast | Care For Caregivers

Home - SafeCare BC

CMHA British Columbia – Mental Health for All

CheckingIn | Mental wellbeing for your workplace

Welcome to the Care2Listen podcast and video series, produced by SafeCare BC, CMHA BC, and CheckingIn.

The goal of this podcast is to reduce the stigma around mental health for healthcare providers and shed light on caregivers' difficulties while providing accessible resources and support for those who need it. In each episode, we will showcase topics that impact a healthcare professional and give them a platform to share their story and lived experience with these topics. We will also aim to bring in subject matter experts to help with providing evidence-based tools to help with these challenges.

You can listen to Episode 1 here on January 23rd.

We want to hear from you - about the topics that interest you or your lived experience with mental health. To provide feedback or be featured in an upcoming episode - please connect with us at SafeCareBC.ca.

www.careforcaregivers.ca/podcast/