The Sisyphus Curse: The Relentless Work of Public Health: How to Survive and Thrive
How can you keep from feeling burned out and hopeless when facing so many public health challenges and crises?
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Course Information
- Audience: Nurses, Community health workers, Public health professionals, Health services managers
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: April 14, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 PM EST - Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hour is 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_SC.
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
This activity has been approved by the Rhode Island State Nurse’s Association Educational Unit, an accredited approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Association Center’s Commission on Accreditation (Approval # 343-041323-36). In order to receive credit for this offering, you must review the entire presentation and complete the evaluation. Your certificate will be provided electronically within 7 business days to your provided email address.
There is no conflict of interest for the presenter or anyone affiliated with the content of this presentation. There is no commercial support by any company for this offering. One must complete the evaluation by 04/14/2022 in order to receive credit.
- Competencies: Community Partnership Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: None
- Supplemental materials:PowerPoint slides
- Pre-requisites None
About this Webinar
This webinar will explore historically relevant, disruptive events and the people who endured them, revealing personal attributes and team dynamics. The instructor will suggest anger management and de-escalation tactics to consider, as colleagues and clients continue to experience high levels of frustration and stress. The webinar will identify risk factors for burn-out that occur in teams in relentlessly challenging circumstances. Applying Nursing principles and providing examples to right-size one’s perspective, the webinar will help fight burnout, and help public health professionals remain true to the purpose of the profession.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the origins of anger and disruptive behavior among colleagues and clients
- Identify risk factors for burn-out within yourself and your team
- Articulate potential consequences and resolutions for unchecked stress
- Create a personal and/or team-oriented care plan to improve staff fulfillment
Subject Matter Expert
Leigh Hubbard,
Clinical Manager
Leigh Hubbard is the Clinical Manager at Open Door Health, Rhode Island’s first Ambulatory Health clinic dedicated to providing gender affirming care to the LGBTQ community. Her prior work included surgical services, program development and management, regulatory readiness, and ambulatory care and management. She has also worked in surgical intensive care, neurosurgery, oncology, and women’s health. She finds great joy in smoothing transitions within healthcare through process improvement and helping to guide RNs and other healthcare staff members through unsure, challenging circumstances. She feels that “professional growth spurts” abound when a person or team is tested and perseveres.
Leigh Hubbard is also the President of the American Nurses Association in Rhode Island. She chairs the government affairs committee. She is on the board of Directors of Rhode Island Action Coalition and the current medical consultant for the University of Rhode Island Childhood Development Center. She is a founding member of Mainstay RI, a small think tank dedicated to opioid overdose care redesign. She is an active member of Grace Episcopal Church in Downtown Providence, where she (used to) sing soprano in the choir.
Registration
Select the Enroll Me button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact support@nephtc.org.
Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program.” This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
* Yale School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH