Shahina’s writing has been published by various organisations, including Energy Magazine, ALiEM, EMdocs, FeminEM and Gold Coast Health. She has also authored scholarly manuscripts, published in Emergency Medicine Australasia. Find them below.
The Lancet
Shahina appeared in a profile article published in The Lancet on Dinesh Palipana: clinician and leading disability rights advocate.
Energy Magazine Publications
Check out the Energy Magazine website. The articles can be found on the following links:
The Importance of Wellness in Healthcare – July-Aug 2021
Was I Enough – The Threat of Shame in Clinical Care – Jul-Aug 2019
The Importance of Wellness in Healthcare – July-Aug 2021
Can We Shift the Energy by Simply Showing Up – May-June 2022
Your ED – a periodical published by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine for its members.
Shahina wrote an article for the first edition of the publication called Workplace Wellness: it’s a thing! (PDF)
The Value of Being Valued
A co-authored blog piece on how to effectively give positive feedback: by making it direct, making it specific, and including a disclosure about the effect it had on the feedback-giver. Read the blog.
Linking working relationships with happiness
A blog piece authored by Dr Eve Purdy, Emergency Medicine trainee and anthropologist, on how our efforts to enhance patient outcomes may in fact promote staff satisfaction. Read the blog.
oneED – a case study
The oneED program was showcased on the Queensland Government “Creating Mentally Healthy Workplaces” to honour Mental Health Week 2019.
Why me?
At the inaugural SEQld Network of Women in Emergency Medicine (noWEM), Shahina relates her own journey from imposterhood to stepping up into opportunity, all the while embracing her own vulnerability and imperfection. Read the transcript on nowem.org.
EM Collective Wisdom project
Read the full story on Collective Wisdom.
A scholarly article on the oneED program (March 2018)
Read the full story on Embedding a mindfulness‐based wellness programme into an emergency department.
On why I write
Read the article on Louise Allan’s website – Shahina Braganza: Converting Chaos Into Order
Lessons from a Mindful Emergency Room
Shahina shares what her Emergency Department has learned from embedding mindfulness practices into a busy, complex and chaotic healthcare workplace.
Read the full story on Greater Good Science Center.
The ‘Other’ Imposter Syndrome (and overcoming it for a greater good)
In the late 1970s, the term ‘Imposter syndrome’ was coined by Drs Clance and Imes (both females incidentally…). It referred to high-achieving people who were unable to “own” their accomplishments and who lived in persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. The concept has been described frequently within the medical profession over the past few years. An eloquent example was written by @NatalieMay (stemlynsblog.org) in 2014.
View a letter from the Health Minister in relation to this story
Read the full story on FeminEM:
When Humanity is all we have to offer
I welcomed a bunch of newly graduated fresh-faced interns to our hospital. I described the job of being a doctor as a privilege and a responsibility. I called it the best job in the world.
But, sometimes even the best job in the world can suck a little.
Read the full story on Gold Coast Health and take a look at some feedback on Facebook.
Could “compassion” be a dirty word?
First published 9 December 2016
Why I don’t think working in healthcare is “just a job”.
In the context of a tribalistic exchange about which discipline in medicine is the hardest working (and hardest done by), a colleague and mentor referred to a recent thought-provoking article by Louis Profeta.
Read the full story on FeminEM:
Can we sometimes choose to be a happy FeminEM?
I would like to start with some disclaimers.
Firstly, I have no claim to fame as a FeminEM – I have been privileged (so far and touch wood) to not suffer a major hardship which I’ve had to overcome, nor have I conducted any studies or presentations on this subject matter. As such I am no authority on it. Indeed I am the quintessential “ordinary” emergency physician.
Read the full story on FeminEM (3 separate articles):