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Many nurses are struggling with the day to day pain of nursing. This can be disheartening as nurses begin to ask themselves “how much longer can I do this”? The first step to thriving at work is healing. This starts with gaining an understanding of secondary trauma and compassion fatigue in nursing. With this awareness we can then move to identifying the strengths of nurses and expanding their use from patient care to self-care. From this place, strategies to minimize the pain of nursing and buld resilience can be learned. The steps are simple, we just need to know where to start. Nurses WANT to love the work they do. If this can be achieved, the return on investment in improved patient care AND improved health and wellness of the nurse is transformational.

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This 60 minute presentation was first developed for the ASPMN National Conference Inspirational Opener 2023 and revised as the Keynote Address for the Iowa Stead Children's Hospital Women and Children's conference

Thirty one percent of nurses report leaving their jobs due to burnout and greater than 60% of nurses report some symptoms of burnout. While these pre-pandemic numbers are staggering, nurse stressors have only increased over since COVID-19.  While burnout can result in a lower level of patient care and can impact the mental health and wellness of the individual nurse, it is not untreatable or unavoidable. It should be treated like the chronic health conditions that we diagnose and treat with our patients on a daily basis. One key approach to combating burnout and compassion fatigue is to build resilience, increasing the ability to adapt successfully in the face of stressful or threatening situations. By building resilience through the strategies outlined, we, as NPs, can give ourselves some of the amazing health care we give our patients and stay in the profession that we worked so hard to get into.

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This 60 minute presentation was first given as a general session at the American Society for Pain Management Nursing National Conference in 2021.

Nursing is arguably a very difficult job. In addition to high requirements of knowledge and advanced skills, nurses are expected to be able to deal with patient stressors and distressing outcomes on a regular basis.  This puts nurses at high risk for developing secondary traumatic stress which can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, and illness.  The first step to protecting nurses and facilitating healing is awareness of this possibility for vicarious trauma and acknowledging that a baseline trauma history may be present. This presentation looks at defining this problem in nursing, addressing the accompanying moral distress and establishing a treatment protocol for trauma informed self care. 

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This 60 minute presentation was first given at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association NJ Conference in 2023.

Research shows that nurses have an 18% higher incidence of suicide than patients in the  general population and female nurses have almost 2x the incidence of suicide as women in  the general population.This is not being addressed in nursing education or at the larger  organizational level.This activity will provide nurses with the necessary information to identify the risk factors for nurse suicide, support those who are at risk, and develop a care plan to  promote their own health and wellness as nurses.

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This 60 minute presentation was first given at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association NJ conference in 2022.

Research outlines the problem of burnout in nursing, but what if we want to be more proactive?  Nurses are creative and intelligent. They have the capacity to feel better in the important work they are doing but may not have been taught the skills necessary. This straightforward presentation outlines 5 steps that your staff can start using today to make the daily experience of life at work better and build the strength of the team. Let’s not wait for burnout to occur before we take action. Let’s not only target the nurses who are really suffering but bolster and support the entire team. If we raise the water, all the boats rise.

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This 60 minute presentation was first developed for the NJ State Nursing Association, Region 4 Meeting in 2022

Bringing all the goodness of my 1:1 coaching program to your organization, this experiential 6 week group program is focused on helping nurses heal from the stressors of the job and become competent in the skills needed to build and maintain resilience and happiness at work. It consists of a weekly coaching workshop with me, video modules, and a workbook/journal for continued daily practice. If you really want work to change, we have to be willing to take the first steps ourselves.