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1. Practice in-the-moment stress reduction techniques.
2. Evaluate the long-term benefits of a regular meditation practice.
3. Analyze compassion practices that help nurses regulate emotional distress.
4. Choose ways the nurse can professionally respond to workplace bullies.
5. Integrate techniques to increase teamwork and cooperation in the workplace.
6. Discover strategies to bring closure to the workday.
7. Develop a plan to increase self-care and wellness in your life.

Unrelenting Stress Kills

• Self-evaluate: Identify your thorniest work stressors
• Discover ten in-the-moment stress busters
• Stress is a given, but what do you want your response to look like?

Managing the Demanding Patient

• De-escalate any situation with nonviolent communication strategies
• Consider… the impact of uncertainty, lack of information and loss of control
• The two parts of communication: Expressing honestly and listening empathically

Strategies for Stressful Work Overload

• Identify your triggers for emotional nursing distress: Maslach Burnout Inventory
• The Burnout Triad: Depersonalization, overwhelm and loss of personal efficacy
• De-stress in the middle of a busy shift
• Time management skills

Techniques to Bring Calm in High Acuity and Emergency Scenarios

• Processing intense emotions: It's not for the faint of heart
• Create a 'Calm Kit' to get you back in the zone

Handle Unsupportive or Abusive Co-Workers

• How to say what you want, get what you need and not irritate everyone along the way
• Managing bullying and blaming
• Communication practice scenarios:
  • You want to tell a co-worker that she really needs to step it up at work
  • A co-worker is blaming you for a poor patient outcome
  • You need help with a patient today and no one working is very approachable
• Team-building strategies to increase support and cooperation

Increase Job Satisfaction with Caring, Compassion and Gratitude Exercises

• Discover compassion: The road between caring too much and being too burnt out to care
• Don't let mind traps/habitual thinking get you stuck
• Are you experiencing empathic distress?
• Attributes of resiliency

Achieve a Healthy Balance Between Home and Work

• How personal, interpersonal and organizational factors contribute to overall burnout
• Give yourself kindness
• Name and process your emotions

Sleep Disturbances and Anxiety

• Current best practices for shift work/sleep cycles
• Quiet your mind so the work day does not replay

Red Flags: Self-Evaluation for Excessive Stress and Burnout

• Strategies to bring closure to the workday
• Distinguish between venting, complaining and processing the workday
• Meditation and the link to workplace outcomes
• Apply self-care - your most important survival strategy!

Sara Lefkowitz, RN, BSN, MPA, is a dynamic and engaging speaker who presents highly acclaimed seminars on stress reduction for healthcare workers throughout the United States. She has firsthand knowledge of the challenges that nurses face through her years working in large urban hospitals on medical surgical units and in the emergency department. She did this while being a wife and mother; so she understands the difficulties of juggling family and career responsibilities.

Sara is naturally curious and a lifelong learner. This spirit helped her face her own periods of burnout with optimism and hope. She is excited to share with you the best techniques from her studies on mindfulness based stress reduction, meditation, compassion, and wellbeing. Because the best cure can be a day in nature; Sara is often found kayaking on the bay or hiking in the mountains.

Sara hopes you will join her in this experiential and career-changing workshop. She will teach you how to calm the mind, soothe the emotions and speak up for the profession. In a nutshell, when stressed; breathe, feel your feet on the floor, and choose kindness. Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Sara Lefkowitz has an employment relationship with the College of Marin. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sara Lefkowitz has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Save time and $10 off the price of other submission methods – purchase & take the CE test online for $9.99 USD per participant. Additional processing fees apply for other submission methods (i.e. mail, fax, etc.). Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists
This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

California Nurses: PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #:17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

Florida Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

Iowa Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 6.3 self-study contact hours.

Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

• Nurses