Article Excerpt: Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians play a vital role in saving countless lives. Unfortunately, working on the front lines of healthcare comes with significant challenges. These include unpredictable work environments and unavoidable stressors that can increase the risk of engaging in health risk behaviors.
While this chronic stress can be managed through effective emotion-regulatory strategies (controlling emotions to avoid immediate gratification and achieve long term goals), limited resources and difficult working environments make it hard for EMS clinicians to use these helpful strategies.
To better understand the challenges faced by EMS clinicians, the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians is collaborating with investigators at the Dartmouth College Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), the only NIH-funded “Center of Excellence” in the nation focused on developing and testing robust digital therapeutics for substance use (P30DA029926).
Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/4h5fh2tn
Article Source: Journal of Emergency Medical Services. This article is also highlighted in Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News.