CNA Challenges & Rewards Conference: Caring for Yourself and Others

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Target Audience

Nurse Aides, C.N.A (I and II), Nursing Techs, medical assistants, community health workers, and other interested healthcare professionals

Description

This program is jointly provided by Northwest AHEC and Charlotte AHEC.

With skill and compassion, these caregivers are an exceptional group of professionals that have the benefit of spending the greatest amount of time with the persons being served. Because they are typically the first to observe changes in status, they have potential to be the source of solutions to a majority of the challenges confronting most care settings.

Please join us for this event! It includes educational topics to enhance your practice.

Topics

Combating Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Enhancing Resiliency and Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Christina Clarke, DBH, MS, HS-BCP
NW AHEC

Implicit Biases in Healthcare
Sigrid Smith, CSSGB, PCMH CCE, CDP
Charlotte AHEC

Understanding and Responding to Dementia Related Behaviors
Juanita Wade, Alzheimer’s Association Community Educator
Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina Chapter

Tuning In: Harnessing Anxiety in Stressful Situations
Lisa M. Foster, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
Nurse Manager: Vascular Access Team
Education Manager, Atrium Health

Credit:
3.6 Contact Hours from Northwest AHEC
Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC), a program of Wake Forest School of Medicine and part of the NC AHEC System.

Live Webinar Information
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Objectives

• Identify strategies to prevent or manage compassion fatigue as a patient care provider.
• Define implicit bias and how it is manifested in healthcare.
• Recognize how implicit bias may be operating in the clinical setting.
• Discuss strategies that can be used to minimize the impact of implicit bias.
• Identify common triggers for behaviors associated with dementia.
• Explain the process for assessing and identifying challenging behaviors.
• List strategies to address common dementia-related behaviors.
• Identify how our own anxieties impact our ability to recognize escalating situations.

Sessions