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Caring Greatly

by Heart of Safety Coalition

Caring Greatly is a destination where listeners are inspired to grow, lead and drive transformation to improve healthcare. This interview-style podcast creates space for people to share their perspective and connect to human-centered stories that reveal solutions, spark innovation and provide hope for a safer and brighter future of caring. The podcast is hosted by Stryker's Heart of Safety Coalition, a national community healthcare leaders, learners and advocates working to improve the safety and wellbeing of all who work in healthcare.

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Episodes

  1. Creating trust and psychological safety with new team members: Leadership lessons from a locum tenens emergency physician – Helena Halasz, MD

    Emergency medicine requires clinicians to build trust quickly, often in high-stakes situations and under significant pressure. For locum tenens physicians, whose work assignments are temporary, the challenges with building trusted relationships with new team members can be compounded by the...

  2. The Pitt and the importance of protecting care team safety and humanity | Mel Herbert, MD, FACEP

    Physicians, nurses and other care team members working in hospitals and health systems are often asked to move through trying and traumatic moments that put their emotional, psychological and physical safety at risk without having time or resources to fully process what they’ve experienced. In…

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  3. Humans at the heart of healthcare: Why care team safety matters

    Healthcare is built on science, technology, systems and processes, but at the heart of healthcare are humans. For more than three decades, Liz Boehm has studied healthcare organizations, spent hundreds of hours inside hospitals and spoken with thousands of clinicians and healthcare leaders.…

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  4. Self-regulation: from individual skill to system-wide strategy | Jennifer Luer, DNP, RN, CPPS, CPHQ

    Self-regulation is the ability to recognize and manage our emotional, mental and physical responses to stress so we can think clearly, make sound decisions, and engage effectively with others. In healthcare and other high-pressure environments, self-regulation helps individuals move beyond...

  5. Finding safety in the body: Trauma resilience support for care team members – Marie Nutter, BSN, RN, CNOR

    At some point in their training or careers, most clinicians will experience intense stress, suffering, loss and critical incidents that can have lasting impacts on their psychological and emotional safety. Despite the prevalence of traumatic stress in healthcare settings, most care team members…

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  6. The Emotional PPE Project: Improving care team members’ access to mental and emotional health resources – Daniel Saddawi-Konefka, MD, MBA

    Healthcare professionals experience rates of burnout, depression, anxiety and other mental and emotional health challenges that often exceed those of the general population. Yet many clinicians never seek support due to stigma, concerns about confidentiality, logistical barriers, or fear of...

  7. Getting rid of stupid stuff (GROSS) at scale – Jennifer Bissram, MS, MBA, and Emily Kertcher, PhD, OTR/L

    “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff,” or GROSS, is a healthcare improvement approach first introduced by Dr. Melinda Ashton at Hawaii Pacific Health in a 2018 New England Journal of Medicine article. Originally focused on empowering clinicians to identify and eliminate unnecessary EHR tasks to reduce...

  8. Physician-led workplace violence prevention and response – Jason Stopyra, MD, MS

    When a workplace violence (WPV) event occurs in a healthcare setting, physicians can be good de-escalation partners for nurses and other care team members. In this episode of Caring Greatly, Jason Stopyra, MD, MS, Enterprise Vice President of Public Safety at Advocate Health, talks about how his...

  9. Leading across the three pillars of care team safety – Deborah Visconi, MHA

    Deborah Visconi, CEO of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center was one of the first healthcare CEOs to sign the Heart of Safety Declaration of Principles, which expands the definition of care team safety to include psychological and emotional safety, dignity and inclusion, and physical safety. In this...

  10. Safety and wellbeing transformation through the Workplace Change Collaborative – Lauren Muñoz, PhD, RN, FNP-BC

    The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act is a first-of-its-kind law that supports healthcare workers’ mental health and wellbeing. Since its enactment in 2022, the law has helped transform processes, improve systems and save lives. This law and the ongoing work by the Dr. Lorna…

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  11. Illness does not equal impairment: Why care team members deserve a supportive path back to practice – Chris Bundy, MD, MPH

    Having a mental health condition, including depression or substance use disorder, does not automatically mean that a physician, nurse or other healthcare professional is unable to provide patient care in a competent, ethical and professional manner. Chris Bundy, MD, MPH, FAPA, FASAM, and other...

  12. Protecting capacity to learn as a focus of wellbeing – Carlton Abner, DNP, RN, NBC-HWC

    What if we could bridge the divide between healthcare leaders who understand that team member safety and wellbeing is essential and those who view it as nice-to-have with a small shift in focus? That’s what happens when Carlton Abner, DNP, RN, NBC-HWC, reframes wellbeing goals as protecting...

  13. Human-centered leadership: Reflections from a quality leader – Shannon Connor Phillips, MD, MPH

    In this episode of Caring Greatly, Liz and Shannon revisit the mastery model of human-centered leadership in this new context. Shannon shares her views on what’s the same, what has changed, and how leaders can continue to find joy in their work and use that joy to help improve the safety and...

  14. Workplace violence prevention and recovery in the emergency department: A nurse’s perspective – Sarah-Marie Baumgartner, RN

    In this episode of Caring Greatly, Sarah-Marie Baumgartner, RN, talks about ways nurses can protect themselves in the emergency department (ED )and other healthcare settings and how organizations can reduce the likelihood of both physical and verbal assault on care team members. She shares a...

  15. Six actions to break down barriers and be ALL IN for mental health care

    Since 2020, the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation (LBF) and members of its ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare Coalition have worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the mental health care needs and rights of healthcare workers. In this episode of Caring Greatly, Corey Feist, Co-founder…

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  16. Preventing suicide among clinicians starts with understanding with Amanda Choflet, DNP

    In this episode of Caring Greatly, Amanda Choflet, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Dean of Nursing at Northeastern University, shares the path that led her to studying mental health, substance use and suicide risk among clinicians. Dr. Choflet’s research underscores the importance of creating access to mental...

  17. The Pitt and the truth about care team member safety and wellbeing – Mel Herbert, MD, FACEP

    Since 2019, Caring Greatly has beena destination where listeners can be inspired to innovate and help transform healthcarefor the better. All 100 episodes have been thoughtfully created to bring morevisibility to the importance of care team safety and wellbeing, which the Heartof Safety Coalition...

  18. Validated measurement tool assesses care team wellbeing through a system lens - K. Elliott Higgins III, MD

    In this episode of Caring Greatly, K. Elliott Higgins III, MD, is Director of Health and Wellbeing for UCLA’s Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, shares the origin of the Wellbeing Influencers Survey for Healthcare (WISH). The survey initiative began when Dr. Higgins and his...

  19. How authentic leadership fosters psychological safety, dignity and inclusion – Jeremy Segall, MA, RDT, LCAT, FPCC

    In this episode of Caring Greatly, Jeremy Segall, MA, RDT, LCAT, FPCC, inaugural System Chief Wellness Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, shares his personal journey of advancing into a health system leadership role with a unique background, learning to leverage skills from his diverse experience...

  20. Recovery techniques to turn trauma into growth – Terri Bogue, RN, MSN

    In this Caring Greatly episode, Terri describes how overwhelming and difficult experiences get recorded in a person’s body and psyche as trauma. She explains how trauma coping skills such as compartmentalization and detachment can serve care team members in the short-term, but can lead to trauma...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Caring Greatly is a destination where listeners are inspired to grow, lead and drive transformation to improve healthcare. This interview-style podcast creates space for people to share their perspective and connect to human-centered stories that reveal solutions, spark innovation and provide hope for a safer and brighter future of caring. The podcast is hosted by Stryker's Heart of Safety Coalition, a national community healthcare leaders, learners and advocates working to improve the safety and wellbeing of all who work in healthcare.

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Caring Greatly is a destination where listeners are inspired to grow, lead and drive transformation to improve healthcare. This interview-style podcast creates space for people to share their perspective and connect to human-centered stories that reveal solutions, spark innovation and provide hope...

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