• Abby R Rosenberg, Krysta Barton, Courtney Junkins, Samantha Scott, Miranda C Bradford, Angela Steineck, Nancy Lau, Liam Comiskey, and Joyce P Yi-Frazier.
• Palliative Care and Resilience Lab, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA; Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA. Electronic address: abby.rosenberg@seattlechildrens.org.
• J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Oct 1; 60 (4): 857865857-865.

AbstractConducting palliative care research can be personally and professionally challenging. Although limitations in funding and training opportunities are well described, a less recognized barrier to successful palliative care research is creating a sustainable and resilient team. In this special report, we describe the experience and lessons learned in a single palliative care research laboratory. In the first few years of the program, 75% of staff quit, citing burnout and the emotional tolls of their work. To address our sustainability, we translated resilience theory to practice. First, we identified and operationalized shared mission and values. Next, we conducted a resilience resource needs assessment for both individual team members and the larger team as a whole and created a workshop-based curriculum to address unmet personal and professional support needs. Finally, we changed our leadership approach to foster psychological safety and shared mission. Since then, no team member has left, and the program has thrived. As the demand for rigorous palliative care research grows, we hope this report will provide perspective and ideas to other established and emerging palliative care research programs.Copyright © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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