Publications by authors named "Candice Griffin"
Importance: In the setting of an active pandemic the impact of public vaccine hesitancy on healthcare workers has not yet been explored. There is currently a paucity of literature that examines how patient resistance to disease prevention in general impacts practitioners.
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented healthcare challenges with impacts on healthcare workers' wellbeing.
Background: Patient death is an inevitability during medical training, with subsequent psychologic distress, decreased empathy and worse learning outcomes. We aimed to explore resident experiences with patient death early in training, including the immediate and delayed impacts of these experiences, preparedness of trainees for these events and coping strategies used, potentially identifying gaps and opportunities to further support trainees during difficult or traumatic events.
Methods: We performed a qualitative study using phenomenology methodology to understand trainees' personal experiences with patient death.