Nurse Well-Being: Leadership Support
It can be “lonely at the top.” Nurse leaders like you often not only deal daily with the stress of their position, but also the effects of their team’s individual and collective mental health. You need knowledge and know-how to manage and mitigate the things contributing to nurse burnout at your site.
You can take action to improve your team's well-being by developing knowledge and skills using concepts from the Stress First Aid peer support model in the Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support program. This special supplemental leadership training will help you learn how to better support your teams and yourself.
You should complete the Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support – Training first to fully benefit from this course.
Course Details
Overview
You see it on your team every day. The burnout that goes beyond what should be normal – but is normal for nurses everywhere. You need tools and methods to lead and manage the stress injuries impacting individual nurses’ mental health – and potentially as a result – patient care.
The Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support Program privides an initial step to providing support and care to nurses. You will gain skills on how to have tough conversations about mental health with staff, identify ways you can build healthy nursing teams, and understand the value of caring for yourself first.
You should complete the Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support – Training first to fully benefit from this course.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Understand your role in supporting your team through stressful situations and stress injuries.
- Explain how a supportive leadership and peer environment contributes to the well-being of nurses.
- Perform the 7 Stress First Aid Actions in your leadership role.
- Identify and address your own stress as a leader.
