Member and Trainee Wellbeing

April 2020

EM Wellness Week in a time of COVID-19

ACEM and RCEM joint statement

Emergency Medicine Wellness Week: We've got this

March 2020
“At this time, I would also like to highlight the importance of looking after our wellness, and the wellness of our colleagues, both physical and mental.

I also encourage all members, trainees and staff to continue self-monitoring for any symptoms of febrile or respiratory illness, and to follow the advice of local health authorities should they have any concerns.

We are in for some challenging times ahead, but our training, skills and expertise, as well as the support we offer each other, will get us through.” - Dr John Bonning FACEM, President

(ACEM member and trainee access only)

The ACEM Wellbeing Network is an online hub for members and trainees to access virtual conversations, the College support program and resources related to managing wellbeing. 

• TREAT app by Alfred Health (added 15/04/2020)
• Smiling Mind: Healthcare Workers mindfulness program (added 20/05/2020)

• Emergency clinician wellbeing during Covid-19 (added 14/04/2020)
• Emergency Responders: Tips for taking care of yourself (added 20/4/2020)
• You and COVID-19: Complex mental health issues in a pandemic (added 11/05/2020)
• Maintaining our human connection (added 11/05/2020)
• Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure (added 15/05/2020)
• Minding Health Care Workers: Psychological responses of health care workers
  during the Covid pandemic (added 21/05/2020)
• Connection: How connected are you? (added 26/05/2020)
• Awareness: mandatory reporting (added 26/05/2020)
• Anticipatory Anxiety (added 26/05/2020)
• more coming soon

• Start your own staff resus trolley (added 15/04/2020)
• Phases of Staff Wellbeing (added 22/04/2020)
• Develop a COVID-19 Personal Wellbeing Plan (added 22/4/2020)
• Staff Wellness Support Plan (added 05/05/20)
• more coming soon

• Australasian Doctors’ Health Network
• 1737: Aotearoa New Zealand mental health & addictions helpline
• AMA Victoria; Peer Support Service (added 22/04/2020)
• Hand-n-Hand: COVID-19 healthcare workers peer support network (added 24/04/2020)
• Drs4Drs: developed by the medical profession for the medical profession (added 24/04/2020
• Samaritans Aotearoa New Zealand: telephone support line (added 05/05/2020)
• Mind Coaching Australia – email Judith re free mindfulness sessions for frontline clinicians (added 22/04/2020)
• Queensland Doctors Health Programme: for doctors, by doctors (added 22/05/2020)
• more coming soon

• Clinician wellbeing in the time of COVID-19 (added 14/04/2020)
• Don’t Forget the Bubbles COVID Clinician Care (added 20/4/2020)
• Wellbeing during a pandemic – a WRaP EM module (added 22/04/2020)
• Ten Percent Happier Podcast: Loneliness & Belonging with Dan Harris (added 24/04/2020)
• WRaP EM Podcasts: Physician Wellness (added 24/04/2020)
• Resilience and Wellbeing During COVID-19 by Jill Klein (added 18/05/2020)
• Staying well: finding a psychiatrist (added 26/05/2020)
• Managing Panic Attacks Using Breathing (added 26/05/2020)
• more coming soon

• WRaP EM: focused on the development and wellbeing of healthcare professionals
• Coronavirus.BeyondBlue: Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service (added 24/04/2020)
• MyCompass: A personalised self-help tool for your mental health (added 24/04/2020)
• Pandemic Kindness Movement - created by clinicians to support all health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (added 15/05/2020)
• Self-Care for Doctors During Covid-19 Outbreak (added 21/05/2020)
• more resources coming soon

• WRaP EM COVID-19 posters – ED team (added 16/04/2020)
• WRaP EM COVID-19 posters – family safety (added 16/04/2020)
• WRaP EM COVID-19 posters – stay safe (added 16/04/2020)
• Phases of Staff Wellbeing (added 22/04/2020)
• Fatigue: the facts (added 11/05/2020) 
• Queensland Doctors Health Programme: for doctors, by doctors (added 22/05/2020)