Nursing Times Resources for the nursing profession
Nursing Times has collected information on a series of free virtual courses and resources that are relevant to the Covid-19: Are You OK? campaign and being offered by a variety of organisations, unions and charities.
Armed forces and veterans’ charity Help for Heroes is sharing mental health support for healthcare staff and also their families.
- Lessons from the Battlefield tips and tools for healthcare workers
- Updated Lessons from the Battlefield: support for loved ones
It has created a free online package of support, called Lessons from the Battlefield, as a resource for frontline healthcare workers and has now also updated it to help their loved ones too.
The charity highlighted that concern was mounting around the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers.
It added that it was also urging more support for their loved ones who it warned could be the “forgotten victims of the pandemic”.
It noted that it had, therefore, updated Lessons from the Battlefield to include self-care guides for loved ones, not just veterans and healthcare heroes themselves.
The charity provides lifelong recovery support to service personnel who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty, and to their families.
It was founded in 2007 by Bryn Parry and his wife Emma, after they visited soldiers at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.
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