Compassion Fatigue: How to Avoid Letting Work Bring You Down – Free CE Event for Nurses, Social Workers and other Healthcare Professionals

Wednesday, July 13 | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Healthcare and senior living professionals must deal with the differing expectations of clients, agencies, and partners as well as confront a variety of challenges that are specific to the senior population. This can lead to ‘compassion fatigue’ or what we used to call ‘burnout.’ But, there are ways to minimize this feeling.

Join us as Adrian Allotey, a Long-Term Care consultant with Longtree & Associates, presents Compassion Fatigue. This one-hour continuing education (CE) course will teach professionals how to identify fatigue and provide strategies for addressing this emotion as health care providers.

Sponsor: Longtree & Associates, a Long-Term Care Seminar and Consulting Firm
Presenter: Adrian Allotey
Location: Applewood Estates
CE Approved: 3.0 – Social Workers (SW), Registered Nurses (RN)

Course Description:
While striving to provide older adults with the best possible care, professionals must deal with the differing expectations of clients, agencies and professionals, as well as confront a variety of challenges, many of which are specific to the senior population. This can lead to compassion fatigue or what we use to call ‘burn out’ This course will assist professionals in identifying these challenges and provide strategies for addressing fatigue as health care providers. This course is designed for social workers, nurses and other professionals.

Course Objectives:
1. Identify expectations and experiences from the perspectives of agencies, professionals and clients
2. Describe compassion fatigue that is associated with professional health care professionals
3. Describe principals in management strategies to assist team members in meeting the missions and goals of the organization to ensure person centered care
5. Explain the challenges of moving from compassion fatigue to healthy compassion vigor
6. Strategize about how to handle these challenges through healthy professional boundaries and self-care skills

There is no fee for this program. Dinner will be served during the presentation, so RSVPs are required.
To RSVP, please register here