Creative Coping...when caring becomes routine:

First Aid Kit for Caring Overload, Compassion Fatigue, Stress and Burnout

How do you cope when caring gets to be routine? How do you find the energy—and the motivation—to remain empathetic, supportive and effective when you suffer from compassion fatigue and caring overload?

This seminar will explore the issue of Caring Overload and offer tips on coping with the stress of accumulated loss. We will discuss what happens when you become supersaturated and begin to “leak” on your co-workers, family and friends.

Together we will define stress, identify symptoms of compassion fatigue, explore options for creative coping and build a FIRST AID KIT FOR BURNOUT.

This is a meaningful workshop with a serious message and a light touch!

Sponsored by The Healing Place Grief Support Center of Sacred Heart Hospital
(conference services provided by UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education)

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Date/Time/Location

Thursday, May 8, 2008
8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Ramada Convention Center
205 S. Barstow Street,
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: (715) 855-0871

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Agenda

Program Time Schedule
8 a.m.	Registration/Check In
9 a.m.	Caring Overload
10:30 a.m.	BREAK
10:45 a.m.	Stress and Burnout: Taming the Tornado
12:00 noon	Lunch (provided)
1 p.m.	Does One Size Fit Anyone? Personality and Coping Styles
2 p.m.	BREAK
2:20 p.m.	First Aid For Compassion Fatigue and Caring Overload
3:30 p.m.	Program Ends

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Description

Darcie’s presentations are extremely powerful and yet hopeful.

"We’ll talk about very heavy topics, but with a sense of perspective about what we do, why we do it and how we can keep the “wonder” in every day… without hope and wonder, we simply cannot do the best job we are capable of doing.

We really do literally build a First Aid Kit for Burnout that participants can make using items that are meaningful to them. In addition to “stuff,” (such as chocolate!) the first aid kit also includes philosophies, thought processes and different options and actions to help heal the “burn” and to prevent the “burn.” While I teach theory, I also preach and teach and encourage a practical and useful approach to all of my presentations… a serious message with a light touch." - Darcie Sims

Content:

• Expectations of Self and Others
• Definitions of Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and
  Caring Overload
• Signs and Symptoms of Compassion Fatigue, Caring Overload
• Discovering and Understanding Your Coping Style
• Stress Management Tools and Techniques
• First Aid for Burnout
• Creating A Personal Plan for Survival

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Objectives

 

• Identify Expectations of Self, Others
• Define Helping. Define Rescuing. Discuss Differences/Similarities
• Discuss the Differences Between NEED and WANT
• Define Caring Overload, Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue
• Identify 3 Personal Indicators of Caring Overload, Super saturation
• List 4 Personal Indicators of Stress
• Identify Personal Coping Style
• Identify 4 Effective Coping Strategies for Your Coping Style
• Develop a Personal Plan for Survival

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Presenter

Darcie D. Sims, Ph.D., CHT, CT, GMS is a bereaved parent and child, a grief management specialist, a nationally certified thanatologist, a certified pastoral bereavement specialist, and a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. She is the author of Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna?, Footsteps Through the Valley, Touchstones and If I Could Just See Hope.

She is an internationally recognized speaker and was Coping Editor for Bereavement magazine for 15 years. She is now an editor for Grief Digest. Darcie is president and co-founder of GRIEF, Inc. a grief consulting business
and the Director of the American Grief Academy in Seattle, Washington. She is a Diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association, a Certified Diplomate in Clinical Hypnotherapy and is listed in Who’s Who in America, The World Who’s Who of Women and The International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women.

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Fee

Early Registration - $85 each, postmarked by April 24, 2008

Standard Registration Fee - $95 each, for any registration postmarked April 25 or after.

Fee includes instruction, program materials, refreshment break, lunch, and parking fee.

Transfers/Cancellations/Refunds
To receive a refund minus a $25 registration fee, you must cancel no later than 14 days prior to the start of the program. There will be no refund for cancellations received within 14 days of the program. Please call the
Continuing Education office at 715-836-3636 or toll-free 866-893-2423.

Sacred Heart Hospital reserves the right to cancel the program due to insufficient enrollment or other administrative reasons, as well as the right to limit enrollment to ensure quality. In the event of a Sacred Heart cancellation, a full refund will be issued. Our liability is limited to the refund of the program fee.


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CEUs/Contact Hours/Academic Credit

Funeral Directors may earn 6 Continuing Education Hours (4 hours Category 1, Grief Counseling or Communications, plus 2 hours Professional conduct, business ethics or legal aspects specifically related to practice in the profession).

Long Term Care Administrators: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care
Administrators (NAB) and approved for 5 clock hours and 5 participant hours.

Nurses: UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Participants in this program may earn 5.5 Nursing Education Contact Hours.

Physicians: Sacred Heart Hospital is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Sacred Heart Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of
their participation in this activity.

Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Professional Chaplains may earn 6 Continuing Education Hours.

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