Are you interested in how to deliver the best care for our patients and applying our clinical skills to the best of our ability? And would you like to know what our wellbeing has to do with it? Then you may want to listen to this conversation between host Petra Agthe and our guest Dan Tipney, who is an expert in human factors with experience in a variety of professions including sports, aviation, human healthcare and veterinary medicine. In this episode, Dan shares lots of interesting information all around the topic of delivering safe patient care - and about the fact that this can only be achieved, if we look adequately after our own physiological and psychological needs as individual and as teams.

Main points discussed in this episode:
0:57 Why our show is advertisement free
1:57 Introduction to this episode and introducing Dan
5:25 About the relationship between performance and wellbeing
10:51 Emotions, emotion regulation and how breathing techniques can help
28:30 Weakness or strength? The two ends of the extreme in the human factor discussion, and the effects of dehydration, insufficient rest and sleep.
36:51 Performance vs performing
39:47 Detachment from outcome
42:03 High performing veterinary teams
45:05 Where to find Dan, Conclusion and Preview

Dan's favourite resources on the topic:

• The high performance podcast: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast
• I am... with Jonny Wilkinson: https://i-am-with-jonny-wilkinson.simplecast.com/episodes
• Brené Brown - Dare to Lead: https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/
  
  

Other resources you may be interested in:

• How breath-control can change your life- scientific review article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137615/
• Breathing exercise for stress: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/breathing-exercises-for-stress/

Where to find Dan Tipney and VetLed:
https://www.vetled.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/vetledteam/
https://www.facebook.com/VetLedteam/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vetled/

We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian

This podcast is in partnership with the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). More about VIN here.

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Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay