Table 3.

Health and well-being support for ICU professionals

Interventions individual level

Provide a buddy-system to support colleagues

Provide confidential counselling

Support equality diversion and inclusion by peer-to-peer learning system

Organise daily staff huddles to support teamwork

Provide and ensure regular breaks

Provide the basics in staff room—facilities, food trolley, drinks

Create a system to follow-up on sick leave

Interventions team level

Promote mutual respect within the multi-professional team

Allow staff for self-reflection and empowering to lead change

Organise regular ICU staff discussions facilitated by a psychologist or ethicist

Create a culture of not avoiding end-of-life discussion

Support interprofessional shared decision making

Employ end-of-shift debrief sessions

Continuous training sessions on communication, feedback, mindfulness, mediation

Interventions organisational level

Create a safe environment for ICU staff to feel comfortable

Monitor the ‘need for recovery’ between shifts and act on the results

Organise thanks and award/reward systems

Interventions external stakeholders level

Create an information and inclusion system for hospital staff connected to the ICU

Initiate a (digital) support and information system for family members of ICU staff