Contemplating the Role of an Intensive Care Doctor : A Fieldwork Guide to Intensive Care Medicine / edited by Diane Dennis, Peter Vernon van Heerden, Michael Ruppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dennis, Diane.

Contributor:

van Heerden, Peter Vernon.

Ruppe, Michael.

Series:

Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical care medicine.

Intensive Care Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Intensive Care Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialized hospital ward where people with life threatening conditions receive around-the-clock monitoring and life support. It is here that the sickest of the sick patients are managed, and there is a large spectrum of challenging working conditions that may cause significant psychological stress to those who function in them. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the increasing prevalence of mental health issues among the medical fraternity. The notion of professional burnout syndrome in the intensive care specialty is well described in the literature and is perceived to be due to the workload and acuity of the field. Contemplating the Role of the Intensive Care Doctor brings together an experienced group of intensivists and other clinicians to provide further commentary related to the observations and generous reflections of those interviewed. The main focus is on the need for young doctors to contemplate their own personality and the intensive care environment itself to prepare themselves to work within the specialty and have longevity and good health while doing so. The book is comprised of eighteen chapters that explore personality traits, various allocations of role, the working environment, and the complex nature of communication between peers, teams, and families. It aims to facilitate the resilience of young doctors by challenging their perception of themselves and of those around them. We hope that by exploring these narratives, these doctors will be better prepared to manage their potential vulnerability within the ICU medical team.

Contents:

Part 1: User guide to this book

So, you want to be an ICU doctor? How this book might be useful for an ICU trainee

Thinking about thinking - how this book might be useful related to communicating in ICU

Connecting people - how to use the book in a mentoring relationship

Doing what’s right, but what’s right? How this book might help to prepare for ethical dilemmas in ICU

Balancing insight with serenity - how to use the book to self-reflect but not ruminate

Part 2: Swimming lessons

Can you swim? Contemplating your personality

Floating, treading water, and swimming - contemplating your role

The stormy sea - contemplating the place

Nearly drowning, diagnosing bias - contemplating societal biases

Swimming in new waters - contemplating the ICU environment after a pandemic

Part 3: Learning to sing

Singing from the same songbook - contemplating communicating with family

Melodies and harmonies - contemplating communicating with other doctors

Different performances, kids are special - contemplating paediatric ICU

Leading the choir - contemplating communicating with your own team

Part 4: Mastering aerial acrobatics

Learning to climb the ropes - shadows of doubt - contemplating self-care

When ropes get tangled - contemplating change

Installing safety nets - contemplating our fieldwork guide

Bouncing safely ahead - contemplating the future.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-031-92766-4

OCLC:

1535398586