Self care

Module Author – Alex Markwell; Peer review – Melanie Rule

 Learning Objectives

• Describe benefits of self-care to the individual health practitioner
• Describe benefits of self-care to the patient and health system in general
• Outline strategies for self-care at individual level (including boundary creation and self-compassion)
• Outline strategies for self-care at a system level
• Outline individual barriers to self-care, and strategies to overcome them
• Outline system-level barriers to self-care, and strategies to overcome them

Module contents

• Facilitator material
  • Self care case studies – facilitator copy
  • Self care case studies – participant copy
• Additional resources
  • Self care references and resources

WRaP EM blog posts on this topic

• Putting your self care first https://wrapem.org/2020/02/11/put-on-your-own-oxygen-mask-first-but-how/
• Personal wellness planning https://wrapem.org/2019/11/20/how-i-became-a-better-doctor-my-personal-wellness-plan/
• Creating an alternate path to fellowship https://wrapem.org/2019/06/10/the-alternative-path-to-fellowship/
• Grief in the ED – lessons from personal loss https://wrapem.org/2019/04/29/grief-in-the-ed-personal-lessons-from-loss/
• Doctor as patient – Diabetes https://wrapem.org/2019/04/15/a-diabetes-diagnosis-defining-a-new-normal/
• Doctor as patient – infertility https://wrapem.org/2019/02/04/i-am-the-one-percent-when-the-doctor-becomes-the-infertile-patient/
• Doctor as patient – Depression https://wrapem.org/2018/05/28/i-think-you-have-depression/
• Taking a tech holiday https://wrapem.org/2018/12/10/out-of-the-office-why-we-should-all-take-a-technology-holiday/
• Ways to wellness https://wrapem.org/2018/07/09/ways-to-wellness-dr-mike-cameron/
• Parenting when working in healthcare – Part 1 https://wrapem.org/2018/06/11/parenting-part-1/
• Parenting when working in Health Care – Part 2 https://wrapem.org/2018/06/11/parenting-part-2/
• Physical Self Care https://wrapem.org/blog/page/8/
• Emotional Self Care https://wrapem.org/2018/03/12/emotional-spoke-12-03-2018/
• Emotional Self Care – A Trainee Perspective https://wrapem.org/2018/03/12/emotional-spoke-trainee-perspective-12-03-2018/