Hospice Workers in the Pandemic: Re-visioning Self-Care Systemically in a Time of Crisis

Abstract

Hospice workers, along with other health care staff, experienced significant stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most initiatives designed to address this issue focused on top-down ideas about self-care techniques (Martinez et al, 2021). This article describes an alternative approach based on solution-focused and collaborative assumptions, which allowed hospice health care workers to be the experts on their own stressors, and therefore the experts on how to relieve that stress during an unprecedented time.