Reflect and decompress this Thursday at the Recharge Booth

June 3, 2020

The Recharge booth is a ‘virtual’ space that allows you to come together with others, reflect, recharge, decompress, and join a safe and confidential discussion. Hosted by Richard Burnell every Thursday at 2pm, the booth will be sharing stories from different colleagues over a 20-30 minute session.

This week the Recharge Booth will be focusing on the following story:

“I always dreamed of being a health care professional, I came in to it perhaps a bit naively five years ago thinking it was going to be non-stop emergency procedures and saving lives every minute of the day! However, I matured and came to an understanding across the course of my training that this wasn’t going to be the case and that the ‘ordinary’ things are the majority of the role. I understand that ordinary for me isn’t ‘ordinary’ for the patient. Until Covid came along I felt that the health service could slowly and steadily cope with demand and make a difference but now having seen how susceptible society is to mass illness and how easily we could be overwhelmed I worry that we can’t do enough and that if we get a second wave we won’t have the resilience to cope. I am sure that I am perhaps seeing things a bit negatively but it is in the back of mind all the time.”

For more information please contact Richard Burnell on 07747 144874 or Claire Hubbard on 07866 004575.  Alternatively if you would like to be part of the Recharge Booth, drop an email to  swbh.rechargebooth@nhs.net. A WebEx invite will be sent to your outlook diary, and you will simply need to click on the ‘join’ button to enter.