Best Practices for Increasing Compassion Resiliency and Moral Wellness in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings

The intensity and complexity of challenges that health care professionals have faced in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have been remarkable. A medical director at a nursing home shared her experience of the pandemic in these terms: “We went from a belief that we could save everyone to the reality of losing six to seven patients per day, despite doing everything we could in terms of infection control, [personal protective equipment], etc. When my first patient died, I broke down and cried. Then we went into great trauma.”