Wellness and Support for Volunteers and Staff
Learning Objectives:
- Describe stressors that may arise in taking on a volunteer/staff role in palliative care
- Recognize supports that can be put in place for volunteers/staff we work with
- Implement these into our own wellness strategy, systematically and personally
Dawn Davies, MD, FRCPC, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Dr. Dawn Davies was a registered nurse before graduating from McMaster University medical school (1993). She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Alberta (1997). Following a one-year McEachern Fellowship (Canadian Cancer Society, 1999), she returned to the University of Alberta, where she practiced general pediatrics and was Medical Director of the Pediatric Palliative Care Program until 2018. Dawn received her MA (Health Care Ethics and Law) from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 2011. She now practices with the Pediatric Palliative Care team at Roger Neilson House and CHEO in Ottawa
Resources Mentioned in Session
- Impact of Closed Facebook Group Participation on Female Hematology/Oncology Physicians
- Hospice Palliative Care Volunteers: A Review of Commonly Encountered Stressors, How They Cope With them, and Implications for Volunteer Training/Management
- Plan for Resilience: Workplace Edition
- Improving physician well-being: lessons from palliative care
- Roger Neilson House Volunteer Programs
- CHEO Mindfulness Resources
- Fitness Blender
- Yoga with Adrienne
- Happidote App by The Janki Foundation
- Insight Timer App
- Being with our Dying – Upaya and Zen Center
Session Materials
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