Care Fatigue: Helping Pets in the New Year

Objective: Help your team overcome and prevent care fatigue. Learn coping mechanisms and techniques for fighting care fatigue and practice them as a team.

Content: Care fatigue or caregiver burnout can affect anyone in a caretaking position, including pet care workers. This type of burnout can cause high turnover at caretaking facilities if not prevented and addressed. This lunch and learn activity is designed to help your team learn to cope with and prevent care fatigue so that you and your staff can start the new year feeling invigorated and refreshed. As a team leader, you’ll earn the trust and respect of your team members by addressing and empathizing with their emotional well-being.

Prior to Lunch & Learn Session:

• In preparation for leading the group discussion, the leader should review the supporting document section to determine how the information will be presented.
• Print a copy of the “Care Fatigue Fact Sheet” for each team member.
• Decide which mindfulness activities you’d like to do with your team. If you have a large staff, you may decide to break off into smaller groups to accomplish these activities.