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Palliative Care Consults for Clinician Distress: Part of the Job?

This article by Schenker, @billyrosaphd.bsky.social and Arnold examines the role of #PalliativeCare specialists in addressing clinician distress.

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Screenshot of the front of the article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Title - Palliative Care Consults for Clinician Distress: Part of the Job? Yael Schenker, MD, MAS, FAAHPM, William E. Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN, Robert M. Arnold, MD, FAAHPM Abstract Clinician distress is common in serious illness care. Palliative specialists are often consulted for cases involving significant distress among primary teams. Consults involving clinician distress can be challenging to navigate when it feels like 1) palliative specialists do not have the right skills to be helpful or 2) palliative specialists are being asked to ‘fix’ difficult situations that would require changing other people's attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, or healthcare systems writ large. This article uses three composite cases to illustrate types of clinician distress and examine the benefits and risks of palliative specialist involvement. We conclude with a discussion of potential impacts of palliative care consults for clinician distress on the field of palliative care and consider next steps in critically important efforts to support and sustain the entire workforce—both palliative specialists and nonspecialists alike—when caring for patients with serious illness and their family caregivers.
November 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM