Help the Helpers! Care for Healthcare Workers Now!

I fear our limited capacity to care for each other during COVID-19. It’s not beds or equipment, rather a limit of caring people with expertise. All sorts of expertise. It’s a finite pool that we need to invest in and support for the long term – two weeks, a month, a year. I know many burning out expert healthcare workers ready to throw in the towel. Learn about Project COPE Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem 00:52. 1 Introducing Mark Heywood Johnson and Smitty Heavner 02:11. 2 Chronicling with Project COPE 04:59. 2 Mixed methods research: Interviews and surveys, numbers and experience 09:19. 3 Vlogging: Video blogs 11:36. 5 Including who? Self-identified healthcare worker 13:53. 5 Healthcare workers providing family caregiving 14:49. 5 Answering what questions? 18:00. 6 Scared and exhausted 20:12. 7 Quadruple Aim: Healthcare workers matter 21:08. 7 Including healthcare workers in design 22:20. 7 Including patients in design 23:51. 8 If you could do it over? 24:35. 8 Follow, join, learn 25:35. 8 Reflection 27:28. 9 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Photo by jose aljovin on Unsplash Sponsored by Abridge Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Mary Ellen Cortizas, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Mary Anne Sterling, Jan Oldenburg, Jonathan Wald, Sherry Reynolds, Mary Griskewicz, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Kistein Monkhouse Links SC Public Radio: It's Not About Superheroes: The Very Human Toll COVID Takes on Frontline Healthcare Workers SC Public Radio: An Upstate Collaborative Chronicles Moral Distress in 'Non-Essential' Healthcare Workers Nurse Keith’s COVID-19 Update #15 | The Nurse Keith Show LinkedIn: Smitty Heavner-Sullivan LinkedIn: Mark Heyward Johnson Link to Study Site: Project COPE http://projectcope.info https://www.facebook.com/InfoProjectCOPE/ https://www.instagram.com/cope_project/ https://twitter.com/cope_project   Mixed methods in detail Mixed methods simply Quadruple aim. Providers matter. Related podcasts and blogs https://www.health-hats.com/share-the-stories-help-the-helpers/ https://www.health-hats.com/help_the_helpers_in_crisis/ https://www.health-hats.com/help-the-helper/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.