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● Recognition (Reactive vs Proactive vs Spectrum

of Challenges & Help)

Knowing all these are important because it would be able to help us to recognize and

to deal with the challenges as well. Recognition could be difficult as sometimes we are
not aware of our own challenges, or whether we are in distress or not.

When I was preparing these slides, I spoke to one of my colleagues who was working at
one of the COVID-19 wards at a different hospital. She has mentioned that “managing
COVID-19 is not difficult, however what is difficult is the management of the fear and

the responses that come about it.” This is why we must support other healthcare
workers and help them to go through their distress. Healthcare workers really need to

look after ourselves and our colleagues as well.