How many ER/A&E departments offer staff support groups and good supervision
on a regular basis is something I would like to know.

I also know that in some departments the liaison psych and senior nurse team
help facilitate/take part in a staff support group once a week/month that
all staff find useful. medics are involved too.

In addition debriefing after major incidents and bereavement
counselling/trauma counselling after a patient dies and it has been particularly
traumatic
for that staff member.

Fenella

In a message dated 27/12/2004 22:07:09 GMT Standard Time,
drew_xyrn@... writes:


Colleen,
You need to be a bit more specific than "stress in the
ER" - i.e. post-code stress of RNs is an example.
Remember to keep your topic close to something that
YOU know & love as that will keep you interested
through literature search after literature search.
What population are you looking at? RNs? MDs?
Patients? Ancillary staff?
What type of stress? (Physical reactions,
psychological?)
Is this going to be qualitative or quantitative? THAT
has a lot do with your research.

Best of luck - a thesis is a labor of love and you
will have moments of despair and moments of
triumph....
Andrew

--- lee <leern911@...> wrote:

> Hi Coleen...... I would like to read your thesis,
> when you're done; if you don't mind.
> I've been a ER Nurse for about 30+ yrs.
> Good Luck!
> Lee
>
> Coleen Karr <ckarr@...> wrote:
> Hi there I am fascinated with the topic of stress in
> the ER and am actually going to start working on a
> thesis in January. I would appreciate any comments
> or suggested readings. I would like to focus on how
> Er workers cope with stress.
>
> You can contact me at either taz91@... or
> via this focus group.
>
> Thanks,
> Coleen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joy Shields [mailto:ohjoywrld@...]
>
> Sent: Sat 12/25/2004 1:43 PM
> To: emergency-nurse@yahoogroups.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [emergency-nurse.org] Stress
> Question
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>
>
>
> I look forward to reading on topic stress
> mamagement. Thanks ER Administrator Joy Shields
>
> emergencynurselistowner
> <damienvanc@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just posted a section on Stress
> Management on www.emergency-
> nurse.org, and I'd like to put a few pages
> together with details on
> how ER nurses cope with stress for other to
> read and hopefully
> benefit from.
>
> The question is - how do you deal with stress
> where you work? What
> coping mechanisms do you use and what works
> and doesn't work?
>
> To kick the discussion off, one of my personal
> coping mechanisms is
> to stop everything for 5 minutes and take
> stock (the fact I smoke
> helps as it's an excuse to leave for a few
> minutes!). Leaving the
> department in the hands of the second senior
> nurse for a few minutes
> works wonders, and when I come back I'm good
> to go! What doesn't
> work for me is to keep going and going with no
> breaks at all.
>
> Looking forward to hearing what you do!
>
> Regards,
>
> Damien van C.
> Listowner
>
>
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