Title : Trauma recovery, resilience, and wellness for healthcare professionals
Abstract:
Trauma Recovery, Resilience, and Wellness for Healthcare Professionals provides specific, evidence-based strategies for nurses to recover and heal from the daily traumas they experience at work. It discuses the nature of their work traumas and how they can injure the brain causing significant psychological and emotional distress. Nurses are at a significant higher risk for suicide, depression, sleep and anxiety disorders than the general population. Nurses’ daily work traumas can also cause burnout, turnover, career loss, and unprofessional service. Without the understanding of trauma and specific ways to mitigate its toxic effects, nurses are vulnerable to become victims of their beloved profession. This presentation provides evidence-based strategies for nurses to strengthen resilience with every patient. It provides daily wellness strategies for them to strengthen physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. These wellness strategies enable nurses to recover and heal from trauma, enhance compassionate and selfless service, while enhancing peace and fulfillment.
Audience Take Away Notes:
- Attendees will gain a working understanding of the nature of their daily work traumas and how they can cause significant alterations in the brain’s normal functioning.
- Attendees will be able to practice resilience strategies that will help them to lessen the effects of their work traumas.
- Attendees will learn at least five wellness strategies that can be practiced daily to strengthen physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being.
- Attendees will learn of one of the most effective professional treatment methods to heal from trauma – EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and how to find a local trauma professional certified in EMDR.
- Attendees will learn how to remain motivated, compassionate, and professional throughout their entire career and how to enhance their capacities to alleviate suffering in others in meaningful ways.
