Building Resilience in Nursing: Simple Tools to Effectively Cope with Stress and Love Your Job

Author(s): Barnes Jen A

Contact Hours 1.00

CERP C 1.00

Expires Dec 31, 2025

Topics: Beacon, Behavioral/Psychosocial

Role: Staff

Fees
Member: Free
NonMember: $10.00

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Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Burnout in nursing has become a crisis in the United States. Burnout compromises job performance, negatively impacts patient safety and satisfaction, decreases job enjoyment and increases nurse turnover. Building emotional resilience in nurses has a positive impact on nurse satisfaction and performance, as well as patient outcomes. Easy-to-use strategies and tools to combat burnout and build resilience are shared. Attendees have a chance to experience the strategies for themselves in session.

Objectives

  • Identify the relationship between burnout and job dissatisfaction, shortened nursing careers and worse patient outcomes.
  • Verbalize one's own personal response to stress as well as the underlying factors that need to be addressed to prevent and recover from burnout.
  • Apply two strategies to relieve stress and build resilience.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

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