Overview:
Looking at how compassion fatigue affects healthcare workers, determining signs and symptoms and providing management and self-care tools to help negate and avoid reoccurrence of severe fatigue.
Why you should Attend:
We have all heard about it. We have seen it in our newspapers and our televisions. But what really is compassion fatigue? How can we know we or our employees have it? More importantly how can we help our employees through it as well as giving them tools to avoid it in the future? It’s not just about meditating or eating healthy. It’s about putting in the work as leaders to battle it together. This seminar will assist you with not only the identification but also some ideas on strategies to combat it in your organization in the long term.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- What is compassion fatigue?
- Definition
- Signs & Identification
- How does it differ from burnout?
- How do you assist employees through it?
- How do you help avoid it?
Speaker
Dr. Kori Novak is an expert in familial (or non-professional or paid) caregiving. While her focus has been end of life, she also has represented familial caregivers in places like the White House Conference on Aging as a delegate from the state of CA. Her specialty in caregiving for families was borne out of her own very personal experiences with her own family.
Who Should Attend
- CEOs
- COO
- Chief Medical Officers
- Medical directors
- Directors
- Supervisors
- Director of Nursing
- Nurse managers
