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Nursing Stress and Exhaustion: Proven Strategies to Beat Burnout and Revive Your Professional Passion!

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Unrelenting Stress Kills

Self-evaluate: Identify your thorniest work stressors
Discover ten in-the-moment stress busters
Stress is a given, but what do you want your response to look like?

Managing the Demanding Patient

De-escalate any situation with nonviolent communication strategies
Consider… the impact of uncertainty, lack of information and loss of control
The two parts of communication: Expressing honestly and listening empathically

Strategies for Stressful Work Overload

Identify your triggers for emotional nursing distress: Maslach Burnout Inventory
The Burnout Triad: Depersonalization, overwhelm and loss of personal efficacy
De-stress in the middle of a busy shift
Time management skills

Techniques to Bring Calm in High Acuity and Emergency Scenarios

Processing intense emotions: It's not for the faint of heart
Create a 'Calm Kit' to get you back in the zone

Handle Unsupportive or Abusive Co-Workers

How to say what you want, get what you need and not irritate everyone along the way
Managing bullying and blaming
Communication practice scenarios:
- You want to tell a co-worker that she really needs to step it up at work
- A co-worker is blaming you for a poor patient outcome
- You need help with a patient today and no one working is very approachable
Team-building strategies to increase support and cooperation

Increase Job Satisfaction with Caring, Compassion and Gratitude Exercises

Discover compassion: The road between caring too much and being too burnt out to care
Don't let mind traps/habitual thinking get you stuck
Are you experiencing empathic distress?
Attributes of resiliency

Achieve a Healthy Balance Between Home and Work

How personal, interpersonal and organizational factors contribute to overall burnout
Give yourself kindness
Name and process your emotions

Sleep Disturbances and Anxiety

Current best practices for shift work/sleep cycles
Quiet your mind so the work day does not replay

Red Flags: Self-Evaluation for Excessive Stress and Burnout

Strategies to bring closure to the workday
Distinguish between venting, complaining and processing the workday
Meditation and the link to workplace outcomes
Apply self-care - your most important survival strategy!

Target Audience

Nurses

Copyright : 03/21/2019

Nurses in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Work and Home Strategies to Reduce Your Stress, Fear and Frustration

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Devise methods to calm the mind at work and at home.
Practice compassion practices to soother the body.
Plan how to use the empathy buddy to process difficult work emotions.

Outline

How do you remain calm during coronavirus storm? This experiential program will present easy to learn techniques to calm the mind, soothe the body and process difficult emotions. Techniques utilizing mindfulness meditation, compassion and communication will be presented to work with stress.

Expressing gratitude to healthcare workers
Coronavirus challenges:
- Intensification of stress
- Lack of PPEs
- Fear of contracting the disease
- Anxiety about transmitting it to others
- Staffing and workload  
Extending kindness to coworkers
Destress by letting go of being perfect/Accepting that we are all doing the best we can
Staying mentally and physically healthy: Meditation, Sleep, Safety, Exercise, Diet
Experiential Practices: Mindful meditation, Mindful Check In, Mindful Handwashing, and Empathetic Communication   
Transitioning to home: Leaving work at work and being present for yourself and family

Target Audience

Nurses
Other Healthcare Professionals

Copyright : 04/17/2020

Weight Loss Solutions for the Busy and Stressed Nurse

Are you a stressed out, overworked nurse who, over the years, have found yourself feeling uncomfortable in your own skin? Have you tried supplements, personal trainers and restrictive diets without the scale budging or being able to fit into those jeans? Do you feel shame about your current weight? You don't like how you look, you aren't the role model you should be for patients, you just don't feel healthy… or happy? Do you feel like you’ve been spinning your wheels in trying to lose weight, getting nowhere fast?

We all know what it takes to lose weight - exercise & healthy food - but if that were true, then why is it so difficult for many to lose weight? The truth is that it requires much more than exercise and nutrition - also unlocking your own behavior, sabotaging habits and disempowering narratives around weight loss, as well as understanding the optimal diet and exercise for your metabolism.

In this recording, Dr. Ruiz, a Naturopathic Doctor and Registered Nurse, will help you unlock your own potential for weight loss in a healthy and sustainable way. You will understand why fad diets won't work - and what diets could work for you. You will analyze your 3-day diet and lifestyle diary, gain clarity around weight goals, overcome sabotaging beliefs about your weight loss journey and develop a sustainable action plan for achieving your desired goal.

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Objectives

Analyze 3-day diet diaries for optimal nutritional wellness.
Create a personal weight loss narrative that is empowering.
Evaluate different diet options to select the optimal diet for your personal weight loss goal.
Assess personal habits and behaviors that lead to weight gain.
Plan a personal weight loss action program.
Analyze supplements that have shown benefit for weight loss.
Theorize the psychology behind weight loss.
Implement the 9 Foundations of Healthy Weight Management into your lifestyle.

Outline

Challenges of Weight Management

Causes of weight gain: Diet-binge cycles, stress and overeating
Common medical causes of weight gain
Deconstructing cravings: What causes them and how to overcome them
80/20 nutrition: How to "treat" yourself without feeling deprived
How to increase your metabolism naturally
Stress and its impact on weight management

Food Restrictions Alone Almost Guarantee Diet Failure… There are Nutritional Musts for Success

Your body's nutritional needs
Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, proteins and fats
Micronutrients
Hydration and its effect on weight loss
Hormones and their role in weight management

Diet Diaries

Optimal diets for weight loss and why fad diets don't work
Analyzing your diet and lifestyle diary
Habits and behaviors that lead to weight gain
Why are you eating when you aren't hungry?
Why are you eating past the point of feeling full?
Eating, weight, emotions, anxiety, depression can all go hand in hand; break the cycle!

9 Foundations of Healthy Weight Management

Food preparation: How to make quick and convenient meals
- Quality nutrition and food choices
The psychology of eating: Overeating, shame and self-loathing
- Exercise and motion
- Sleep and recovery
Developing successful skills for weight management
- Restoration and stress management
Long-term weight loss habits and mindset
Creating a supportive environment for weight management

Supplements that are Beneficial for Weight Loss and Management

L-Carnitine
B12
Green Tea / Caffeine
Fish Oil
CLA
Chromium
Adaptogens: Rhodiola, Eleuthero

Your Weight Loss Narrative - Creating a New Story

Visualizing the ideal weight goal
Identifying obstacles in your narrative
Understanding the process of weight loss
- End your unhealthy relationship with food
- Learn to like your body image now
Creating a new weight loss narrative

Develop Your Personal Weight Loss Action Plan

Reasonable goal-making for weight loss
Objective and subjective indicators of success

Target Audience

Nurses

Combat Nurse Bullying: Proven Strategies to Take Action

The sad reality is that nurse bullying is a distraction from patient care.

We’ve likely all been there... Either as the target of nurse bullying or have been witness (perhaps a silent witness) to bullying taking place at work.

It does seem contradictory that someone can be both a nurse and a bully. So why does it happen at such significant rates? If we understand the reasons why nurse bullies choose their victims, we can take steps to protect ourselves while at work. And if we can understand the reasons behind a co-worker’s actions, we are more likely to intervene in a way that generates the desired results.

It is time now to take a stand. To stand up for yourself and others who have been disrespected, gossiped about, withholding expected patient information, or criticized in front of patients/families. Bullying can come in so many forms. In less than 90 minutes, you will learn proven strategies from expert Theresa Puckett PhD, RN, CNE, to help turn your department or unit in to a peaceful and enjoyable place to work.

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Objectives

Analyze the reasons behind bullying decisions common to nursing.
Evaluate theories of bullying in nursing.
Measure how individual nurses and the greater organization is affected by bullying.
Plan interventions to successfully address bullying.

Outline

Historical overview of bullying in nursing
Expressions of bullying
- Silence
- Violence
- Mobbing
Examples
- From practice: Horizontal and vertical violence
- From academia: Bullied students and faculty members
Theories of bullying in nursing
- Glasser’s Choice Theory
- Oppression Theory
- Nurse as Wounded Healer
How are the victims chosen?
- Individual factors
- Workplace characteristics
- How nursing values incite bullying
Consequences of bulling
- On individuals
- On organizations
Addressing bullying: Individual Interventions
- Recognizing Super Nurses, Backstabbers and Green-with-Envy Nurses
- Basics of “carefronting”
- Common communication pitfalls and how to address them
- Phrases to form connections
- Communication tools: IMPROVE, SBI, DESC and BEE
Addressing bullying: Organizational Interventions
- Stop Bullying Toolkit
- Nursing Incivility Scale
- Civility Index Dashboard
- Float Survey questions
Future directions

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Educators, Nurse Managers/Directors