RESEARCH PERCH: SHARING OUR STORY
"In this special episode of Research Perch, host Doug Nelson speaks with three investigators working on Project COPE; Dr. Ann Blair Kennedy (USC Greenville), Dr. Niki Munk (IUPUI), and Smith Heavner-Sullivan (Prisma Health). Join us to learn more about the implications of this important work and how you can help be a part of capturing a unique moment in history."
MASSAGE THERAPY WITHOUT BOARDERS: UNTIL THE LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIAN
"Cathy and Cal welcome Ann Blair Kennedy to the podcast this week -- a guest so fancy she only needs initials. ABK is part of the team working on Project COPE: Chronicling Healthcare Providers' Pandemic Experiences. This ambitious and important survey will document how the pandemic affects and changes healthcare workers in all fields. Cal and Cathy talk with ABK about the birth of this project, the question of moral distress, and how to become the Swiss army knife of change."
SHARED KNOWLEDGE, SHARED EXPERIENCE
The President of the Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF), Douglas Nelson, explains the value of massage therapy research. Mr. Nelson discuses the importance of shared knowledge and shared experiences progressing the field. Project COPE is featured as a new research initiative "to capture our insights and feelings about the experience now, not retrospectively from some point in the future. To our knowledge, this is an incredibly unique project that will have a potentially significant impact."
THE THINKING PRACTITIONER:
EPISODE 18: Project COPE
Advanced Trainings' The Thinking Practitioner Podcast hosted two of our research team members on episode 18. "Project COPE is tracking the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on both essential and "non-essential" healthcare practitioners, including massage therapists and bodyworkers. It’s already revealing some insights about representation and diversity in our field. Listen to learn more, and participate in the project.
MASSAGE MAGAZINE: TELL YOUR STORY WITH PROJECT COPE
"The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the therapeutic massage profession while continuing its general world influence. From shutdowns to reopenings and perhaps back to shutdowns, education to practice, clinician to student, provider to client/patient, and researcher to participant, COVID-19 has disrupted life, schedules, livelihoods and identities. Many of us are functioning in survival mode as we balance the many contexts of our lives, with our mental health and emotional well-being certainly affected."
THE NURSE KEITH SHOW
COVID-19 UPDATE #15
"On this special bonus COVID-19 update, Keith interviews Smith F. Heavner-Sullivan, MS, BSN, RN, PCCN, and Ann Blair Kennedy, LMT, BCTMB, DrPH regarding Project COPE (Chronicling healthcare prOviders’ Pandemic Experiences), a mixed-methods ethnography research initiative exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare providers. Project COPE‘s interdisciplinary team crosses three universities, two healthcare systems, and five disciplines: nursing, massage therapy, evaluation science, psychology, and medicine."
SC Public Radio:
An Upstate Collaborative Chronicles Moral Distress in 'Non-Essential' Healthcare Workers
SC Public Radio reporter, Scott Morgan, interviewed some members of the research team, Dr. Ann Blair Kennedy, Smitty Heavner-Sullivan, and Chloe Wilson about the impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers. 'Nonessential' workers have been uniquely impacted during this time.
SC Public Radio:
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SC Public Radio reporter, Scott Morgan, interviewed some members of the research team, Dr. Ann Blair Kennedy, Smitty Heavner-Sullivan, and Chloe Wilson about the impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers. 'Nonessential' workers have been uniquely impacted during this time.