Wellness Center

Professional development tools and wellness resources to help you find your calm and maximize your performance as a clinician ─ especially when times are extraordinarily tough.

Maintaining High Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Featuring Dr. Michael Gervais

Air Date: July 15, 2020

Overview: Every aspect of our personal and professional lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and our interprofessional health-care teams have been particularly impacted—with no clear end in sight. Dr. Michael Gervais, sports psychologist for the Seattle Seahawks and the co-founder of the Compete to Create program, discusses his systematic approach to helping highly trained professionals consistently deliver their best performance when it matters the most.

Visit the e-Learning Library to add this webinar to your "My Learning" to claim CME/CE credits.

The COVID-19 Marathon – Are You in the Right Mindset?

Air Date: December 16, 2020

Overview: Have you ever found your mind racing at work? Struggled to focus on a patient conversation or task at a critical time? Snapped at your family at the end of a long day? Health care is a high-stress profession, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic challenges us every day as we strive to take the best care of our patients—and our families.

Join us for a conversation with Amit Sood, MD, Executive Director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing, creator of the Resilient Option program, and a recognized international expert in this area. Dr. Sood will discuss the science and skills that teach us how to use our minds to their fullest potential. He will also describe a structured approach to reclaim our attention when we need it the most and to preserve compassion and meaning at the bedside during these challenging times.

Supporting Staff Resilience and Recovery: An Organizational Approach

Air Date: November 18, 2020

Overview: Burnout occurs in all types of health-care professionals, and is especially common in individuals who care for critically ill patients. It has been linked to increased rates of job turnover, reduced patient satisfaction, and decreased quality of care. In 2016 the Critical Care Societies Collaborative issued a call to action to address commonly identified issues at work and organizational factors that increase the risk of burnout within healthcare teams. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the urgency for action at the organizational level to help sustain individual and team efforts to maintain high performance. Join us as we talk with an interprofessional panel of senior leaders about common workplace and organizational challenges that institutions have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the innovative solutions that they have pursued to maintain and sustain a high level of individual and team performance during these challenging times.

Winter is Coming: Strategies to Maximize Performance and Combat Burnout

Air Date: October 21, 2020

Overview: Every aspect of our personal and professional lives hasbeen affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and our interprofessional health-care teams caring for patients with pulmonary, critical care, and sleep needs have been particularly impacted—with no clear end in sight.The problem of burnout and moral injury is well known within medicine, and survey evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the risk that healthcare workers face. This session will define the factors that drive the risk of burnout, and examine strategies that have been successfully used both in healthcare and other demanding, high stress professions to sustain high performance. Participants will also receive a brief overview of the CHEST Wellness Center, a new resource of high-quality information for pulmonary, critical care andsleep physicians and members of their interprofessional team.