Healthcare
Nurse Practitioner
Work-Related Stress: Preventing Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Vicarious Trauma
Master stress management and burnout prevention in healthcare with a 3.5-hour CEU course. Essential for professionals.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to identify the causes, symptoms, stages, management, and prevention of work-related stress and components of a healthy workplace. Specific learning objectives to address potential knowledge gaps include:
Define “stress.”
- Describe the potential health impacts of stress.
- Differentiate between burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma as work-related stressors.
- Discuss individual and organizational strategies to minimize the effects of work-related stress.
- Explain how stress contributes to suicidal ideation.
Course description
3.5-hour CEU course on managing work-related stress and burnout prevention. Identify different types of work stressors common to nurses and other healthcare professionals. Learn about creating a healthy workplace setting, the effects of stress on the body, and symptoms and stages of burnout. Identify individual and organizational prevention strategies and actions for responding to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Applicable for nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and EMS personnel.
Regulations and board approvals
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., 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 #12300.