Apr 11, 2020
These include emergency room staff, doctors, nurses,
clinicians, mental health practitioners, pharmacy staff, grocery
staff, those still serving food/drinks, maintenance people,
construction workers, and all the people out there showing up to
help us continue to function, live, and deal with the demands of
this world right now.
This is an incredibly demanding time, those on the front line are
seeing things and experiencing struggles that cannot be compared
with anything that has come before. There are strong
feelings of fear, uncertainty, anger, frustration, grief,
confusion and more.
I realize that the struggles will continue beyond the end of the
Pandemic for those who remain distressed over what they have
witnessed, experienced, lost and fought during this time. This will
start to show weeks, months and years after the impact.
For now, I believe we all need to be part of the conversation and
try to help in ways that allow for open dialogue and figuring out
what helps most.
There are many things that we know make a difference
in managing the daily stressors that you might find
useful from the
resource link
page
HERE
I will be adding to it regularly with updated materials,
suggestions and ideas.
Whichever organization you belong to, it would be good
to create virtual Town Halls where those on the front
line can address their issues and inform those in roles of
management.
There is so much that is unknown and so much that front line
workers need to teach us in order for those in positions of
leadership can make the best choices to address the overarching
demands and needs during this time of crisis.
We all need to listen and stay
connected, even when we are physically distant.