You are a small group of paramedics who have recently attended a wellbeing and resilience workshop as a representative from your local ambulance station. Your manager has asked for you to present your learnings to the station to give the local ‘ambos’ some awareness and strategies to address their health and wellbeing.
Task: You are required to use the list of quotes and evidences as well as quotes from other articles and paraphrasing them to answer the following question:
- How can emotional intelligence and social skills contribute to the wellbeing, development, and relationships of paramedics in their professional practice?
Quotes and evidences:
- “Internal support from peers was described by paramedics as instrumental to wellbeing…helping them resolve concerns”
- “Manager behavior and psychosocial safety climate had positive linear relationships with wellbeing”
- “Coaching (briefing, ensuring comfort, modeling) seen as positively contributing [to resilience]”
- “Non-medical cases… negatively impacting paramedics’ resilience… linked to the emotional labour”
- “Paramedics reported that organisational support and peer networks were invaluable to help process emotions”
- “A masculine-dominated workplace culture can lead to shame and reluctance to disclose feelings”
- “Few participants report using professional support, indicating workplace stigma about seeking help”
- “Healthy coping strategies are self-soothing, relaxation and distraction, social support and professional support”
- “Students often exhibit greater wellbeing than paramedics, aligning with workplace threats to wellbeing that paramedics face”
- “Workplace sense of belonging is linked to wellbeing among paramedics”