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Drs. Dean and Talbot will present on moral injury at SUNY Downstate on December 2, 2020 at 11am.
The event will be held virtually. The doctors will present for 30 minutes and have 30 minutes of Q&A.
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In this episode, Chris McDonald from Nothing Left to Give interviews Moral Injury of Healthcare Associate Elizabeth Holman, PsyD who is the palliative care psychologist at a Hospital in Colorado where she also serves on the ethics consult service. She is the handler of facility dog Tootsie and her research has focused on human-animal interactions.
Elizabeth shares her journey through burnout and how she overcame it. She describes what moral injury is, when it occurs and how it impacts healthcare providers. She describes the differences between burnout and moral injury. She also discusses ways providers can move through it.
In this episode of Moral Matters, Drs. Simon Talbot and Wendy Dean discuss their own experiences with personal challenges that led them to develop the framework of moral injury.
Do you have an experience that sounds similar? We want to hear from you.
Send a voice memo or note to info@moralinjury.healthcare.
Conversations about moral injury in healthcare and elsewhere, how it affects us all, and the growing need for change, with the authors of the STATNews article that started it all, Wendy Dean, MD and Simon G. Talbot, MD. This is Episode 1: Introducing Moral Matters.
Connect with us at www.fixmoralinjury.org, on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
00:00 – Introduction
0:26 – Our goals
1:00 – Who we are
3:50 – What is the essence of distress?
4:15 – Resilient, but still burned out
5:26 – What is the right diagnosis?
6:30 – The genesis of Moral Injury
7:32 – Moral Injury’s relationship to burnout
11:00 – Defining Moral Injury
12:00 – Contributing factors
15:15 – Cross-pollination for innovative, thoughtful solutions
“The pandemic arrived to a healthcare system that’s already deeply in crisis,” said Wendy Dean, a psychiatrist and president of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a group that advocates for more sustainable medical workplaces. “All of the challenges that clinicians are facing prior to the pandemic are just highlighted, exacerbated, and added to.”
In this piece with Talkspace, Dr. Dean outlines some of the basics of moral injury prevention for individuals to take.
As always, our organization has resources available for organizations and individuals experiencing moral injury due to COVID-19.
In a recent article by Pratihba Gopalakrishna, a new study is discussed that focuses on burnout and how commonplace it may be. However, Drs. Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot believe the definition of burnout needs to be reexamined.
“If we’re going to talk about the condition of burnout, then we need to be much more rigorous about applying a strict definition and measure so that everybody’s talking about the same thing using the same scale,” said Wendy Dean, a psychiatrist and the co-founder of the nonprofit organization Moral Injury of Healthcare. Dean was not involved in the new research.
Read the full article on STAT News.
In this piece entitled A Yoga Mat Won’t Fix Your Moral Injury by Ira Bedzow, PhD, moral injury is explored by Dr. Bedzow as a medical ethicist.
But people who suffer from moral injury are not slogging through endless tasks, and they are certainly not losing interest and motivation–they are hurting. And their hurt comes from their perceived inability to meet personal and professional expectations and the moral accountability they feel by their sense of failure.
Drs. Wendy Dean and Simon G. Talbot are highlighted as the experts leading the way on solutions for moral injury. As Dr. Bedzow notes, yoga mats and meditation are not longterm solutions for moral injury.
In this segment with NPR’s Here and Now, Dr. Wendy Dean is interviewed by Amanda Peacher on the toll the COVID-19 crisis is taking on front line staff in hospitals.
Some psychiatrists are even manning a hotline to help their fellow healthcare workers. Listen in via the link below.
In this most recent article from Drs. Dean and Talbot, they explore the concept of mindfulness as a diagnostic, rather than treatment for moral injury.
What would happen if clinicians flipped the script on mindfulness, and instead of using it to tolerate a broken system, used it to sharpen awareness of the challenges?
Explore this with the doctors in their latest piece published on KevinMD below.
