Continuing Education Contact Hours: 1.00
Course Objectives: This in-service is designed to provide professional caregivers with the skills to take control of their health and well-being. It encourages, motivates and empowers caregivers to explore the causes of stress, and strategies for reducing the stress. The in-service specifically targets home health aides and nurse’s aides that provide help to patients in hospice, home health and long term care. Compassion fatigue occurs in these helping professions when the pile-up of working with people experiencing traumatic events takes an emotional toll. This in-service will explore the compassion trap and discuss ways to minimize the effects of burnout.