Course Description
4-hour CEU course on managing work-related stress and burnout prevention. Identify different types of work stressors common to nurses and other healthcare professionals. Learn about creating a healthy workplace setting, the effects of stress on the body, and symptoms and stages of burnout. Identify individual and organizational prevention strategies and actions for responding to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Applicable for nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and EMS personnel.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
1) Define “stress.”
2) Describe the potential health impacts of stress.
3) Differentiate between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma as work-related stressors.
4) Discuss individual and organizational strategies to minimize the effects of work-related stress.
5) Explain how stress contributes to suicidal ideation.
Course Professions
Nursing
Paramedic/EMT
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Course Summaries
Nursing, Paramedic/EMT, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy:
Causes, symptoms, stages, management, and prevention of work-related stress, and components of a healthy workplace.
Accreditation & Approval Information
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.
Course Statements
Nursing:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 10579. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 4.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge, Professional Issues. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Paramedic/EMT:
Wild Iris Medical Education is an approved provider for paramedic and EMT continuing education in California by the Coastal Valleys EMS Agency: CE Provider #49-0057.
Physical Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California.
Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information.
Course Categories
Clinical Application
Professional Issues
Leadership, Management
Professional Issues, Career Management
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Workplace Safety (OSHA) & Accident Prevention
Special Considerations
Clinical Application
Foundational Knowledge
Professional Issues
Authors
Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, MSN, RN
Adrianne E. Avillion earned her MS in nursing and a doctorate in adult education from Penn State University. She has over 40 years of experience in the field of nursing professional development and continuing education for nurses. She has published extensively and is a frequent presenter on the specialty of nursing professional development. Her clinical background includes neurology, mental health, medical-surgical, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Adrianne is the CEO of Strategic Nursing Professional Development, a business that specializes in continuing education for healthcare professionals and consulting services in evidence-based practice and quality improvement.
Persis Mary Hamilton, EdD, MSN, BSN, PHN, PMHN
Persis Hamilton has a rich background in nursing, nursing education, and writing. She has written 14 nursing textbooks for two major publishers. Now retired, Persis taught for more than 40 years in vocational, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, served as item writer for the League for Nursing, and was the principle speaker at numerous CE workshops. She has also conducted research in Micronesia and Guam. She is the former Lead Nurse Planner for Wild Iris Medical Education.
Copyright
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