CE-BHEA-3003 - Self-Care in Healthcare: Skills for Staff and Providers

Course Description

Experiencing work stress is a common occurrence in most professions, but as a healthcare worker, stress can be an overwhelming part of your day-to-day role. Healthcare professionals not only have high-paced, high-volume jobs, but also often take on the emotions of those in their care. Combined with long hours and, usually, a lack of resources, mental health symptoms like burnout, compassion fatigue, and more can appear more frequently than in alternative careers. Through this course on self-care, students will acquire the skills to combat work stress that can lead to negative mental and physical health.

Is This Course For You?

This course is designed for practicing clinical health professionals in non-behavioral health roles whether you’re in a role that requires no prior behavioral health training such as nurses, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical technicians, or a role that requires some behavioral health training such as medical doctors, peer advocates, and helpline/crisis workers. If you want to make sure you can give the best care possible by keeping yourself in a better mental state, this course will help you get the tools you need to adequately care for yourself while caring for your patients.

What You’ll Learn

In this self care focused course, you will gain coping mechanisms and skills that will help you minimize the work-related stress that many healthcare workers face and prevent issues that can lead to worsening mental and physical health. In addition, this course will explore common mental health symptoms, including substance abuse and suicide risk and help empower you to use resources both in the workplace and outside of it for support. There will be a focus on identifying your personal triggers and limitations as well as work around developing preservation skills that you can use both in-the-moment and post-shift. Finally, you’ll practice conversations they may have with patients and support staff to perpetuate psychological safety. All together, in this course you’ll learn how to prevent burnout so you can have a long fulfilling career as a non-behavioral health professional.

How You’ll Learn

??This six week intensive course instructional time in the form of pre-recorded interactive video lectures as well as risk assessment tools, quizzes, journaling, and reflection exercises. This course is asynchronous, so you can choose the most convenient times out of your schedule to do your coursework. Interactive lectures include video vignettes, interactive quizzes, and more to keep you engaged during each module so you can take in the key information that you need to develop sustainable and realistic self care strategies that will help prevent burnout and keep you in a better mental and physical head space while caring for patients.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Formulate strategies to psychologically protect oneself while working in a healthcare environment.
Evaluate feelings and emotions that may lead to burnout or other mental health issues.
Experiment with varied positive coping mechanisms for future use.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

Mastery Certificate: Behavioral Health Foundations : Elective Courses