7 ways Steadii advocates support professional caregivers

Overburdened healthcare systems are experiencing record rates of professional caregiver and clinician burnout. While healthcare workers are often stretched to their physical, mental, and emotional limits as they care for their patients, they have nowhere to turn when they need someone to care for them.

The lack of care for caregivers leads to low employee satisfaction and high employee turnover rates. What if there was a way to connect your caregivers with someone who understands their challenges and is trained to help relieve mental and emotional stress? Even better, what if they could meet with that person on their own terms, when they need it most?

Steadii advocates are available to do just that: support your staff in feeling less stressed and more in control of their day-to-day caregiving situation without adding inconvenience to their lives. Meetings with Steadii advocates are designed to be short and sweet, providing help in the moment over a quick phone call or video chat.

Here are seven ways a Steadii advocate can support clinicians and caregivers in your organization

1. Experience a safe place to discuss emotions
   Processing the natural emotional rollercoaster of anger, sadness, grief, and joy that comes with caregiving is difficult to do alone or in the workplace. Steadii advocates provide a third-party outlet for your clinicians and are here to listen and respond to their emotions from an unbiased perspective.
   
   

2. Receive tools to deal with intense emotions in a healthy way
   Part of processing emotions is having the tools to know what to do with them next. When your clinicians don’t have a positive strategy for moving through their emotions, they can freeze, bottle up, or even erupt in one emotional explosion. Steadii advocates provide caregivers with practical practices to identify and move through feelings in a manageable way.
   
   

3. Feel supported through difficult decisions
   Clinicians make difficult decisions for themselves and their patients all day long. The pressure that comes with these decisions can be overwhelming. While your staff makes these difficult calls, Steadii advocates are available to process the outcomes and help them prepare for similar future situations.
   
   

4. Reduce stress and enhance resilience 
   The weight of caregiving tasks and the emotions that come with them often build up to the point that it’s hard to see the next steps clearly. As Steadii advocates get to know your clinicians on a personal level, they will guide them through strategies to help melt stress away and increase their ability to handle hard things.
   
   

5. Navigate difficult patient relationships
   The relationship between clinician and patient is a sacred one. That relationship often evolves as conditions progress, plans change, or family members get involved. Steadii advocates provide specific guidance to help clinicians hold healthy boundaries and handle complicated social dynamics.
   
   

6. Increase time for self-care
   Your staff is at increased risk of burnout and deteriorating health because of the toll professional caregiving takes. Spending time with a Steadii advocate is an act of self-care that is multiplied when that advocate introduces new self-care strategies that fit into the clinician’s schedule, budget, and routine.
   
   

7. Build confidence and trust 
   Your clinicians already have everything they need inside of them to be excellent caregivers. Leveraging an advocate's wisdom and mental health background allows them to see themselves through a new lens that reveals their strengths and abilities to survive and thrive in their caregiver role. 

Your clinicians are already putting in the hard work and effort, knowing better than anyone else what their patients need. Connecting with someone who can recognize and reflect their strengths back to them could be that extra layer of support they need to continue moving forward in their professional caregiving journey.

Contact us if you’re ready to explore how Steadii can help transform your clinicians’ lives and improve your workplace environment and patient outcomes.