AMAV VICDOC SUMMER 2023 - Magazine - Page 43
Select the different
needs: basic needs,
safety, love and belonging,
esteem, contribution
and leadership actions.
PANDEMIC
KINDNESS
MOVEMENT
Wellbeing support website
for healthcare workers
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parked by the extra
challenges presented
by COVID-19 last year,
a group of clinicians across
Australia established a wellbeing
support website for healthcare
workers. The clinicians have
curated respected, evidenceinformed resources and links
to valuable services to support
the wellbeing of the health
workforce for the project
dubbed the Pandemic
Kindness Movement.
“We launched the website
Pandemic Kindness Movement
after five weeks of incredible
work from clinicians and
talented people across Australia
coming together and investing
in improving healthcare worker
wellbeing for the long-term,”
A/Prof Jane Munro explained.
“It's been a labour of love
amid the troubling times of
COVID-19 and we've had a
wonderful response to the
website from healthcare
workers from many
different backgrounds.”
A/Prof Munro, a paediatric
rheumatologist at the Royal
Children’s Hospital, is one of
the Victorian doctors behind
the project, along with former
Royal Australian and New
Zealand College of Psychiatrists
President, Dr Kym Jenkins.
The model for organising
health worker support is based
on Maslow's hierarchy of needs,
with the pyramid representing
these needs adapted to reflect
the potential challenges of the
COVID-19 pandemic on the
health workforce.
Visitors to the website
can explore the pyramid by
selecting the different needs:
basic needs, safety, love and
belonging, esteem, contribution
and leadership actions. Effective
leadership is critical at all
levels of the pyramid and is an
additional layer represented in
this model.
“We're excited that this
resource will grow,” A/Prof Munro
said. “We would love for doctors
to suggest resources to us via
the email on the webpage.
Click here to visit the
Pandemic Kindness
Movement website
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