Strategy for Staff retention: An interdepartmental team-building workshop ‘Be thankful, live at ease’ “常懷感恩,自在人生”

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Abstract Description
Submission ID :
HAC681
Submission Type
Authors (including presenting author) :
Leung WM(1)(2), Koo,KTK(1),Tang MFP(1),Kwok MLA(1),Tong WCM(1), Mak YMK(1) Ho YLE(2),Chau LS(1)
Affiliation :
(1) Central Nursing Division, Bradbury Hospice/Shatin Chesire Home/ Shatin Hospital, Person-Centred Care Workgroup, Bradbury Hospice/Chesire Home/Shatin Hospital
Introduction :
As most of the patient groups in Bradbury Hospice, Cheshire Home Shatin, and Shatin Hospital are frail elderly, end-of-life and palliative patients with relatively poor prognosis. To exercise the Person-centered approach is one of the strategy to keep staff passion on current position and improve staff retention. A teambuilding workshop collaborates with HAHO Oasis team is organized. It advocates to manage the life between personal affairs and job satisfaction, stress management of personal and work in order to promote high quality of wellbeing
Objectives :
1) To promote work life balance
2) To bring out the core values of thanksgiving, person centered value
3) To enhance the resilience of staff holistic health and wellness by instilling thankful thought and mindfulness
Methodology :
Four team-building workshops were organized by BBH/SCH/SH CND from November to December 2021. The target participants were: 1. Supporting staff (PCAs & EAs), 2. ENs/RNs, 3. APNs, 4. WMs & DOMs. The theme of the workshop is常懷感恩,自在人生, aimed to enhance staff resilience in physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects. A series of seminar on the concept of person centered care and thankfulness were launched, role play was offered to allow the participant to practice the theory in reality, theme orientated group discussion and presentation to allow participant understand thoroughly and promoted physical and emotional resilience.
Result & Outcome :
Result
Total 80 staffs were participated in the workshop, 96% of the participants agreed that the program achieved its objectives and felt satisfied with the program. Participants also agree the workshop is practical for use and felt recharged in psychological, social and spiritual afterward.
Conclusion
The theme of “be thankful, live at ease” was successfully delivered to participants. They are able to adopt the care model and achieve work-life balance after participate in the workshop.
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