Shining Your Light Again: Resiliency Training/Compassion Fatigue

RN, CNS,  LPN/LVN, NP

Course Description

In this one day program, participants will explore a wide variety of information and skills to help combat chronic stress that leads to compassion fatigue. Participants will learn to develop professional resiliency skills to maximally function under the increasingly difficult and stressful demands of their work environments. There will be time-out sessions for practices in mindfulness, meditation, gentle movement and self-assessments. Each participant will develop an individualized self-care program to integrate into his or her practice immediately.

Program Learning Outcomes

This program prepares the learner to:

• Explore the causes, symptoms, effects of compassion fatigue, along with the treatments and resiliency strategies for potentially debilitating life-changing conditions.
• Explain the effects of the autonomic nervous system in magnifying our stress response.
• Implement skills to self-regulate the autonomic nervous system, going from sympathetic to parasympathetic response.
• Create a self-care resiliency individualized plan to implement immediately