| Reducing work-related (occupational) stress or trauma: |
| Consult legislation, regulations, and case law |
| Access educational support to understand health policies, practices, and the regulatory environment |
| Solicit and develop work-related and social supports |
| Access counselling support |
| Maintain personal care, eating, sleeping and living well |
| Develop a balance between work and your own life |
| Seek out organizational support |
| Use humour and be hopeful. |
| Sources of work-related/occupational stress or trauma: |
| High workloads and inadequate support |
| Illness or death and loss of family and friends |
| Personal history of trauma and lack of caring for one’s self |
| Career damaging to admit traumatic stress |
| Lack of agency and compassion fatigue |
| Social pressure to remain at work |
| Lack of acknowledgement for work undertaken |
| Violence at the workplace |
| Isolation |
| Inadequate employee assistance programs |
| Commercialism and unstable funding |
| Maintaining currency of work-based knowledge |
| Legal claims |
| Inadequate public knowledge about emotional, legal, social, and medical challenges. |
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