SWell & Paediatric Critical Care Society working together nationally

In this project, we continued our SWell work to explore PCC staff’s experiences of wellbeing at a national level. Some of this work focused on how wellbeing had been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work was undertaken with the support of and in partnership with the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS).

Project Summary

This series of projects explored the experiences of different groups of staff. Some of the work focused in particular on the challenges to wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three key projects were undertaken by BSc Psychology and MSc Health Psychology students at Aston University supervised by Prof Rachel Shaw and supported by the Birmingham SWell team and PCCS.

PCC Consultants’ Challenges to Wellbeing during COVID-19

This project explored PCC consultants’ experiences of wellbeing and how their wellbeing was challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was conducted by Sumayyah Saeed, MSc Health Psychology. You can read the study in BMJ Open, here.

Newly Qualified PCC Nurses’ Challenges to Wellbeing during COVID-19

This project explored newly qualified nurses’ experiences of working in PCC and being redeployed to adult intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was conducted by Jackson Pountney, MSc Health Psychology. You can read the paper here.

Exploring the Meanings of Wellbeing

This work explored the meanings of wellbeing with nurses and allied health professionals working in PCC. The project was undertaken by Esra Yeter, MSc Health Psychology and Harmeet Bhamra, BSc Psychology. The paper is available here.

Paediatric Critical Care Society Wellbeing Special Interest Group

PCCS is committed to understanding how to improve PCC staff wellbeing. Throughout this research, we worked alongside the PCCS wellbeing special interest group. You can read more about their work here.

The PCCS Wellbeing Resources are available here.

“HR provide yoga…it’s not practical for most of us who have you know, a clinician job…I can’t just disappear from the ICU to go and do downface dog for an hour…what should be done is management to come in and say ‘that must have been really tough, what could we do to help?’”