An Emergency Department team on dealing with death and bereavement

The NES Bereavement Education Programme is pleased to announce the launch of a film ‘Dealing with Death and Bereavement at Work: Perspectives from an Emergency Department Team’ that has been developed with colleagues from NHS Grampian.

The film highlights the experiences of a range of clinical and non-clinical Emergency Department staff as they encounter situations involving death and bereavement in the course of their work.

It can be used as a reflective tool for all healthcare staff (individually or within a group) to consider how they personally have dealt with their own experiences of death and bereavement at work.

Consideration of ways in which staff can look after themselves and their colleagues is a prominent theme throughout the film. Another important focus is highlighting the impact that death and bereavement can have upon all team members, including those who are in non-clinical roles e.g. reception, administrative and portering staff.

• Watch the film https://vimeo.com/925094613
• View the film flyer https://shorturl.at/AnVLk

Other bereavement-related educational materials can be found on the NES Support Around Death website www.sad.scot.nhs.uk or by following @NES_Bereavement

Save the date

Registration will soon open for the fifth NES Bereavement Education Conference, to be held on Tuesday 3^rd December 2024: ‘Bereavement in the modern world: Kindness in the chaos’.

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More information on the free, one day virtual event can be found on the NES Events website https://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/events/

Abstracts are being accepted for an e-poster exhibition; an opportunity to showcase bereavement work happening across Scotland and beyond.

For more information about the conference or the new film launch please contact SupportAroundDeath@nes.scot.nhs.uk