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Stress Reduction Strategies for Nurses: Revitalize Your Practice
OUTLINE
Know your Stress: Naming your Top 5 External and Internal Stressors
- Workplace Stressors: Workload, high acuity, code blue, demanding patients, abusive co-workers, lack of control, scheduling
- Home Stressors: Relationships, family, care giving, household management
- Life Stressors: Money, time, illness, aging, death
- Internal Stressors: Anger, fear, worry, attitudes, memories
- Recognizing your stress reactivity pattern: Are you a Fight, Flight or Freezer?
Immediate Stress Relief
- Learn and Practice Quick Stress Busters: Four
- Square Breathing, Recruiting the Senses, STOP
Long-Term Stress Relief
- The new brain research: Neuroplasticity
- Hypervigilance and the overactive amygdala
- Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation
- Practices
- Yoga
- Self-Care
Nursing and Negative Stress Reaction Patterns
- Burnout: Emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of personal efficacy
- Rate yourself: Maslach Burnout Inventory
- Compassion fatigue
- Lateral violence: Disruptive, abusive, or inappropriate behavior between nurses
Explore Mindfulness
- Intention/Attention /Attitude
- The present moment
- Experience: Mindful eating
- Mindful eating at work: Tips and techniques
Focus and Concentration
- Calming the mind
- Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
- Mindfulness and patient safety
- Experience: Mindfulness of breathing
Responding vs. Reacting to Stress
- Stress reactivity habits
- Experiential exercise: Stress awareness and stress release
- Using awareness to ‘Center’ during workplace turmoil
Caring and Compassion: Exploring the Heart of Healthcare
- Job satisfaction and burnout
- Self-compassion: Kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness
- Rate yourself: Self-Compassion Scale
- Compassion Meditation 1: To work with difficult feelings (judgment, blame, shame, doubt) towards yourself
- Compassion Meditation 2: To cultivate greater compassion towards self and others
Workplace Scenarios: Apply Mindful Communication
- A patient’s family member wants to monopolize your time
- You are overloaded and asked to take another admission
- A colleague questions your clinical judgment
- A patient is triggering unwelcome memories from your past
- Today you are irritated by everyone at work
- Working with an emotional spouse at the deathbed
Stress and the Workplace
- The Toxic Workplace: Overwork, Bullying, Blame and Burnout
- The Healthy Workplace: Teamwork, Safety, Mentoring, Flourishing
- Employee health and wellness programs
Self-Care and Resiliency: Keys to a Sustainable Nursing Career
- Stress reduction
- Time management
- Balance: Work to home transitions
- Workplace wellness
- Creating a self-care plan
Teaching Stress Reduction Strategies to Patients and Families
- Choosing appropriate techniques
OBJECTIVES
- Apply stress reduction strategies in your professional and personal life.
- Explain the components that contribute to burnout.
- Practice in-the-moment stress relief techniques including Four Square Breathing, Mindful Check–In and STOP.
- Differentiate between toxic and healthy workplace environments.
- Apply mindful communication techniques to patient care scenarios.
- Evaluate new techniques to process difficult emotions.
- Create a realistic self-care plan.
Program Information
Outline
Know your Stress: Naming your Top 5 External and Internal Stressors
- Workplace Stressors: Workload, high acuity, code blue, demanding patients, abusive co-workers, lack of control, scheduling
- Home Stressors: Relationships, family, care giving, household management
- Life Stressors: Money, time, illness, aging, death
- Internal Stressors: Anger, fear, worry, attitudes, memories
- Recognizing your stress reactivity pattern: Are you a Fight, Flight or Freezer?
Immediate Stress Relief
- Learn and Practice Quick Stress Busters: Four
- Square Breathing, Recruiting the Senses, STOP
Long-Term Stress Relief
- The new brain research: Neuroplasticity
- Hypervigilance and the overactive amygdala
- Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation
- Practices
- Yoga
- Self-Care
Nursing and Negative Stress Reaction Patterns
- Burnout: Emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of personal efficacy
- Rate yourself: Maslach Burnout Inventory
- Compassion fatigue
- Lateral violence: Disruptive, abusive, or inappropriate behavior between nurses
Explore Mindfulness
- Intention/Attention /Attitude
- The present moment
- Experience: Mindful eating
- Mindful eating at work: Tips and techniques
Focus and Concentration
- Calming the mind
- Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
- Mindfulness and patient safety
- Experience: Mindfulness of breathing
Responding vs. Reacting to Stress
- Stress reactivity habits
- Experiential exercise: Stress awareness and stress release
- Using awareness to ‘Center’ during workplace turmoil
Caring and Compassion: Exploring the Heart of Healthcare
- Job satisfaction and burnout
- Self-compassion: Kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness
- Rate yourself: Self-Compassion Scale
- Compassion Meditation 1: To work with difficult feelings (judgment, blame, shame, doubt) towards yourself
- Compassion Meditation 2: To cultivate greater compassion towards self and others
Workplace Scenarios: Apply Mindful Communication
- A patient’s family member wants to monopolize your time
- You are overloaded and asked to take another admission
- A colleague questions your clinical judgment
- A patient is triggering unwelcome memories from your past
- Today you are irritated by everyone at work
- Working with an emotional spouse at the deathbed
Stress and the Workplace
- The Toxic Workplace: Overwork, Bullying, Blame and Burnout
- The Healthy Workplace: Teamwork, Safety, Mentoring, Flourishing
- Employee health and wellness programs
Self-Care and Resiliency: Keys to a Sustainable Nursing Career
- Stress reduction
- Time management
- Balance: Work to home transitions
- Workplace wellness
- Creating a self-care plan
Teaching Stress Reduction Strategies to Patients and Families
- Choosing appropriate techniques
Objectives
- Apply stress reduction strategies in your professional and personal life.
- Explain the components that contribute to burnout.
- Practice in-the-moment stress relief techniques including Four Square Breathing, Mindful Check–In and STOP.
- Differentiate between toxic and healthy workplace environments.
- Apply mindful communication techniques to patient care scenarios.
- Evaluate new techniques to process difficult emotions.
- Create a realistic self-care plan.
Target Audience
Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals
Copyright :
10/21/2016
Hot Topics for Nurse Leaders: Six Calls to Action
Objectives
- Develop strategies to effectively combat nurse burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Incorporate knowledge of the lived experience of nurses who are addicted by formulating a plan to deal with this issue in nursing practice and leadership.
- Analyze causes of conflict in the workplace to address challenges that present in the future.
- Manage the obvious and more subtle ways in which nurse incivility enters the workplace.
- Explain how generational differences across nurse co-workers affect workplace interpersonal dynamics, work ethic, and work attitudes.
- Distinguish the value that nurses provide when it comes to spirituality in practice.
Outline
Nurse Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
- Examples of burnout’s impact on patient outcomes
- Solutions for combating nurse burnout in self and others
- Dealing with work-related stress in a healthy way
- What is compassion fatigue?
- Has the art of “caring” been lost in nursing?
- Applying empathy in practice
- Priority setting skills for nurses
- Employee assistance programs and other resources
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to reach others regarding the importance of nurse burnout prevention and compassion fatigue
The Addicted Professional
- Are nurses at higher risk for substance abuse than the general population?
- Lived experience of nurses who have experienced addiction
- Fear
- Shame and guilt
- Poor coping
- Increased need to control their environments
- A belief that addiction would never happen to them
- Overall research finding: Nurses in recovery feel misunderstood, judged, and desire acceptance
- Considerations when working with an addicted professional
- Identify your OWN risk for becoming addicted
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to educate nurses about risk for addiction in self and co-workers, signs to look for and how to report suspected problems
Conflict in the Workplace
- What is the cause behind the conflict?
- Conflict resolution tips for nurse leaders/physicians
- Conflict resolution strategies for patients/families
- Conflict resolution approaches to use within your team
- Conflict and emotion
- What to say and how to say it (affect)
- Putting conflict into proper perspective
- Role play: Challenging conflict scenarios
- Conflict can be a good thing
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to incorporate new conflict resolution techniques
Nurse Incivility
- The impact of nurse incivility at work
- Ways to promote teamwork and elevate workplace morale
- Encouragement vs. punitive treatment— What results are you hoping for?
- New approaches to welcome nurses to the profession
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to minimize nursing incivility
Generational Differences in Nurses
- Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers
- Perceptions of each generation of the other generations
- Technology impact on the generations of nurses
- Meeting the communication needs across the generations
- Vital need for collaboration and teamwork
- Draw on the strengths of each generation to promote teamwork
- Call to action: Formulate team-building across the generations
Spirituality in Nursing
- Remarkable spirituality experiences in practice
- Increasing comfort with diverse spiritual and religious preferences
- Can nurses go “too far” with influence or support?
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to support spirituality in nursing practice
Program Information
Outline
Nurse Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
- Examples of burnout’s impact on patient outcomes
- Solutions for combating nurse burnout in self and others
- Dealing with work-related stress in a healthy way
- What is compassion fatigue?
- Has the art of “caring” been lost in nursing?
- Applying empathy in practice
- Priority setting skills for nurses
- Employee assistance programs and other resources
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to reach others regarding the importance of nurse burnout prevention and compassion fatigue
The Addicted Professional
- Are nurses at higher risk for substance abuse than the general population?
- Lived experience of nurses who have experienced addiction
- Fear
- Shame and guilt
- Poor coping
- Increased need to control their environments
- A belief that addiction would never happen to them
- Overall research finding: Nurses in recovery feel misunderstood, judged, and desire acceptance
- Considerations when working with an addicted professional
- Identify your OWN risk for becoming addicted
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to educate nurses about risk for addiction in self and co-workers, signs to look for and how to report suspected problems
Conflict in the Workplace
- What is the cause behind the conflict?
- Conflict resolution tips for nurse leaders/physicians
- Conflict resolution strategies for patients/families
- Conflict resolution approaches to use within your team
- Conflict and emotion
- What to say and how to say it (affect)
- Putting conflict into proper perspective
- Role play: Challenging conflict scenarios
- Conflict can be a good thing
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to incorporate new conflict resolution techniques
Nurse Incivility
- The impact of nurse incivility at work
- Ways to promote teamwork and elevate workplace morale
- Encouragement vs. punitive treatment— What results are you hoping for?
- New approaches to welcome nurses to the profession
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to minimize nursing incivility
Generational Differences in Nurses
- Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers
- Perceptions of each generation of the other generations
- Technology impact on the generations of nurses
- Meeting the communication needs across the generations
- Vital need for collaboration and teamwork
- Draw on the strengths of each generation to promote teamwork
- Call to action: Formulate team-building across the generations
Spirituality in Nursing
- Remarkable spirituality experiences in practice
- Increasing comfort with diverse spiritual and religious preferences
- Can nurses go “too far” with influence or support?
- Call to action: Formulate a plan to support spirituality in nursing practice
Objectives
- Develop strategies to effectively combat nurse burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Incorporate knowledge of the lived experience of nurses who are addicted by formulating a plan to deal with this issue in nursing practice and leadership.
- Analyze causes of conflict in the workplace to address challenges that present in the future.
- Manage the obvious and more subtle ways in which nurse incivility enters the workplace.
- Explain how generational differences across nurse co-workers affect workplace interpersonal dynamics, work ethic, and work attitudes.
- Distinguish the value that nurses provide when it comes to spirituality in practice.
Target Audience
Nurses, Nurse Managers, Nurse Directors/Administrators, Nurse Educators, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists
Copyright :
05/05/2016