Taking Care of Your Team During COVID‑19

Strong teamwork is important in any modern health care environment. Health care teams in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine have faced a wide variety of new challenges caring for patients with COVID-19, forcing innovative and creative solutions to support their consistently high performance. In this episode, an interprofessional panel of experienced managers discusses strategies to both maximize team performance and support individual members during the ongoing pandemic and methods to rapidly and effectively train and integrate new health care workers during times of surge. (Originally recorded September 16, 2020)

Moderator: Alexander S. Niven, MD, FCCP

Panelists: Joseph Falise, MSN, RN; Kathy L. Fedor, RRT-ACCS, RCP; Julie Jackson, RRC-ACCS, RCP; Carl Kaplan, MD, FCCP; Geneva Tatem, MD, FCCP; James Town, MD; and Joanne Wozniak, PA-C, MS, FCCP

For more tools to help you maintain peak performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, visit the CHEST Wellness Center at https://www.chestnet.org/Guidelines-and-Resources/Resources/Wellness-Resources.