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ForwardStress and Self-Care: Refilling Your Cup So You Can Continue to Fill Others’ Cups
As professionals working in healthcare, we often burn the candle at both ends, especially in an ever-changing environment. Stress management can provide the necessary skills and knowledge to offset the potentially negative effects of a stressful environment. You can actively take steps to increase your self-awareness and integrate a variety of proven stress management responses into your life, as well as those you interface with daily. Learn simple, yet proven strategies for coping with the stress of unusual circumstances that can help you and your colleagues accomplish your priorities, have more energy and resilience, and feel healthier.
This course will provide necessary skills and knowledge to offset the potentially negative effects of a stressful environment. Integrating a variety of simple, yet proven strategies for coping with the stress of unusual circumstances can help the interprofessional health care team accomplish priorities, have more energy and resilience, and feel healthier.
Target Audience
Nurse
Social Worker
Discharge Planning Professionals
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the warning signs that you may be over-stressed
- Identify the benefits of simple, yet proven calming methods to mitigate stress in the moment
- Apply techniques that are simple yet effective that can be taught to others
- Reframe your thinking to improve mental resilience
As professionals working in healthcare, we often burn the candle at both ends, especially in an ever-changing environment. Stress management can provide the necessary skills and knowledge to offset the potentially negative effects of a stressful environment. You can actively take steps to increase your self-awareness and integrate a variety of proven stress management responses into your life, as well as those you interface with daily. Learn simple, yet proven strategies for coping with the stress of unusual circumstances that can help you and your colleagues accomplish your priorities, have more energy and resilience, and feel healthier.
This course will provide necessary skills and knowledge to offset the potentially negative effects of a stressful environment. Integrating a variety of simple, yet proven strategies for coping with the stress of unusual circumstances can help the interprofessional health care team accomplish priorities, have more energy and resilience, and feel healthier.
Rebecca Patrick
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.
Social Work (ASWB)
This program is offered for 1.0 hours of social work continuing education.
Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals:
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 ASWB
- 1.00 Attendance