Healthcare, Grief, and Personal Wellness

This self-guided module will focus on how grief and stress show up in healthcare professionals themselves, and how attention to personal well-being can support the capacity to provide safe, attentive care.

It will situate common responses within the realities of healthcare work and explores strategies that can support sustainability, emotional regulation, and compassion over time.

This resource module will:

• Normalize grief, stress, and emotional activation as expected responses to grief-exposed healthcare work
• Examine how cumulative loss, moral distress, and trauma exposure can affect well-being and professional functioning
• Distinguish between related experiences such as burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and moral injury
• Introduce evidence-informed coping and regulation strategies that can be used within and outside clinical settings
• Explore how personal wellness practices can support emotional presence, ethical care, and long-term sustainability
• Highlight the role of individual, relational, and organizational supports in fostering grief-sensitive healthcare cultures

COMING SOON

In the meantime, explore other GSHP Online Learning Modules: