As another, even bigger, wave of COVID-19 infections arrives in BC, health-care providers are bracing for a long, stressful winter. Our easy to use, searchable COVID-19 resource library offers valuable information and tools in sizes perfect for health-care providers on the go. You can search by audience, topic, location and resource type, so you’ll find just what you’re looking for (and not a lot of what you’re not).
Some of the resources you’ll find there are recorded presentations so you can listen on demand; quick one-page tools; and easy self-care exercises that you can either squeeze into your day, use before your shift, or tune into as a wind-down before heading home.
Given the recent rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, here are three of our favourite resources to help you take care of yourself, and your patients:
1. Care to Speak is a free peer support service that provides emotional and psychological help to healthcare workers. There is a confidential hotline as well as an online chat service, from Mon-Fri 5-9pm.
2. Mobile Response Team provides psychosocial support to frontline staff in long-term care, residential and community care. They can provide information, facilitate access to resources and services and offer immediate individual and team support.
3. Inter-professional COVID-palliative self-assessment helps you to identify what you need to know about palliative care during COVID-19, and provides links to education resources. This is a more in-depth tool and can be used over time to check your progress. Just download and complete the pdf. For nurses, physicians, social workers, counsellors and health care assistants.
