First responders, stress management and coronavirus

Resilience expert Mike Taigman provides strategies first responders can use to manage stress during the long haul of this pandemic

April 03, 2020 12:13 PM •

Resilience expert Mike Taigman explains how stress affects first responders and provides strategies you can use to manage during the long haul of this pandemic.

When more than 10,000 people registered for this webinar on stress management in less than 5 days, resilience expert Mike Taigman knew he needed to do more. He and Sascha Liebowitz coauthored, “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19.”

“Our friends in emergency services and healthcare have described intense suffering and stress related to COVID-19. We wrote this book to help,” Taigmand and Liebowitz note. “The techniques are easy to learn and use in any situation.”

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Mike Taigman

Mike Taigman uses more than four decades of experience to help EMS leaders and field personnel improve the care/service they provide to patients and their communities. Mike is the Improvement Guide for FirstWatch, a company which provides near-real time monitoring and analysis of data along with performance improvement coaching for EMS agencies.

He teaches Improvement Science in the Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership at the University of California San Francisco and the Emergency Health Services Management Graduate Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He’s the author of “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19.” Contact him at mtaigman@firstwatch.net.