Russell Myers, D.Min.

Full list of Russell Myers, D.Min. results

• Memory can motivate, distract or potentially paralyze us

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  Human memory is more than information storage and retrieval

• Resilience, gratitude and post-traumatic growth

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  Processing trauma is more complicated than we think

• Enhancing employee wellbeing by connecting to the future self

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  A focus on injury prevention, psychological first aid and financial solvency has big implications for health, happiness and finances

• It’s as simple as saying 'thank you'

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  The role of the leader is to bear witness – to the critical and the mundane – to lighten the load

• Caring for the caregiver

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  Transitioning EMS mental health care from reactive to proactive

• When EMS meets hospice

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  End-of-life care takes a heavy emotional toll: Seek support when needed

• Providing relational support to paramedics after a bad call

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  Openly acknowledge the bad calls, create space for people to be human and then get out of the way

• Don’t die from embarrassment

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  “In my work as an EMS chaplain, I’ve ridden in the back of an ambulance hundreds of times, but this was the first time I was on the stretcher”

• Book excerpt: ‘Because we care’

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  Russ Myers offers a handbook for EMS chaplaincy

• Core memories: ‘It happens to all of us, and it’s normal’

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  Our core experiences in EMS, and how our family, friends and colleagues respond and support us, shapes us for years to come

• Are you getting cold and calloused?

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  Our emotional response to cumulative stress changes as the fear factor lessens with experience

• A holiday season we will never forget

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  EMS will continue to respond, adapt, innovate and lead

• Enhancing wellbeing, engagement and patient care in EMS with weak ties

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  Approaching casual relationships intentionally in EMS has lasting implications for improving engagement and optimism in the EMS workforce

• EMS Chaplaincy: Evidence-based professional practice

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  Informed by evidence EMS chaplain Russ Myers places a high priority on follow-up with EMS personnel and dispatchers after any pediatric patient transport