Plan to watch Sara Lefkowitz for this revitalizing workshop recording. Sara really understands nurses and the complexities of working in the healthcare environment.
Sara Lefkowitz – Stress Reduction Strategies for Nurses
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
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Plan to watch Sara Lefkowitz for this revitalizing workshop recording. Sara really understands nurses and the complexities of working in the healthcare environment. She has synthesized materials from important thought leaders in the fields of stress reduction, compassion and nursing to present to you powerful and useful tools to incorporate into your nursing practice.
Multiple demands, fast pace, change and complex situations are common in healthcare environments. This leads nurses to experience the acute and chronic effects of stress. During the stress reaction, the body is flooded with stress hormones. Sara will demonstrate exercises to calm the nervous system. The goal is to develop mindful RESPONSES to stressful events in place of harmful stress REACTIVITY. Mindful responses to stress will help you stay balanced and focused in the midst of a busy day and increase the effectiveness of your nursing practice.
Nurses work with people in crisis. We can become distressed and overwhelmed by other people’s trauma and illness. This contributes to burnout and compassion fatigue. Sara will teach you techniques to develop emotional boundaries and to work successfully with difficult emotions.
Patients and colleagues want to feel seen and heard. The skillful choice of words and good listening can turn potential conflict into collaboration. Learn effective mindful communication techniques.
Sara is confident that this workshop will help nurses regain their sense of vitality, purpose and desire to make a difference in the world. Enroll now for a life- and career-changing event!
