Supporting Resilience & Wellbeing amongst Care Home Staff

Symposium Overview:

Please join us as we host this year’s Winter symposium, which focusses on wellbeing and resilience amongst staff working in care homes for older people. The symposium will be held online, and will comprise four presentations and a moderated Q&A session.

The symposium is free, and is open to anyone with an interest in care homes research and practice.

Further details

Presentation 1: Care Home Nursing during Covid-19: ethical conundrums

Speaker: Dr Diane Bunn, Associate Professor of Nursing Research, University of East Anglia

Overview: During 2021 we interviewed NMC-Registered Nurses working in care homes, exploring how nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on wellbeing. Findings, framed by Tronto’s ethics of care, report on the moral distress arising from complex ethical conundrums in continuing to provide care during this time.

Presentation 2: From Online to Ongoing - Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions with Care Home Staff (OSCaRS) on death and dying

Speaker: Dr Susan Shenkin, Clinical Academic Geriatrician, University of Edinburgh

Overview: I will describe how Reflection and Debriefing sessions which were being provided monthly in care homes were moved to online during COVID and provided opportunities for supportive conversations and reflections, the learning from this, and how the research-led service has now been integrated into the local NHS care home support provision.

Presentation 3: Co-designing an online resource to support the resilience of care home staff

Speaker: Dr Anita Mallon, Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast

Overview: This talk will focus on the process and outcomes of the co-design workshops undertaken with care home staff.

Presentation 4: Practice Based Approaches to Supporting the Work-Related Wellbeing of Care Home staff

Speaker: Lucy Johnston, Senior Research Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University

Overview: This talk will cover findings from our published scoping review and current programme of work. The work has been funded by a Scottish Health Board, has three linked projects, and all aim to improve staff wellbeing and retention, by supporting best practice and service improvement.

Moderator:

The session will be moderated by Professor Christine Brown Wilson, Professor of Education in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast. Christine is a Registered Nurse with an international research profile in Ageing and Dementia in care homes

About the BSG Care Homes Research Special Interest Group (SIG)

Our SIG aims to strengthen research, policy, and practice in all areas of care homes research, including those related to staff, residents, family members and carers, as well as the home environment, and its links with external organisations. We also aim to develop complementary working relationships with the other SIGs, as well as other groups and organisations that support care homes research.

If you would like to be part of the Care Homes Research SIG, please contact the SIG at BSGcarehomes@gmail.com

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