Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection

Resilience is recognized as an important factor in sustained health and performance in the workplace.  Recent changes in healthcare delivery, ethics, and technology present both stress and opportunities for personal and career development and finding meaning in one’s work.  The role of specific behaviors, values, mindsets and relationships in sustaining resilience is becoming more commonly appreciated. . This course will present the state of the field of resilience in Healthcare. It is designed for Nursing Professionals, Physicians, and Pre-hospital  Providers, and all those who serve in healthcare today.  Interactive exercises will assist in enhancing resilience from multiple perspectives. to elicit and teach the skills of resilience. The role of resilience training for new professionals, as well as the role of supervisors, mentors, and preceptors in enhancing resilience will be reviewed. The connection between resilience and expert performance and decision making will be discussed.

Program Highlights:

  • The multiple perspectives of resilience in Healthcare
  • The Practices of Resilience: Behavior, mindsets, values
  • Resilience and performance
  • The development of Resilient Professionals
  • Supervisors and resilient staff development
  • Mentoring / Preceptor strategies for Resilience
  • Personal plan for building resilience
  • Integration with training / continuing education

 

Completion of “Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection” and receipt of a certificate indicating full attendance (7 Contact Hours) qualifies as a class in ICISF’s Certificate of Specialized Training Program.

 

Continuing Education Information

 

One-Day Course: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., 7 Contact Hours; 7 CE Credits for Psychologists; 7 PDHs for EAPs; 7 CE Hours for Calif. MFTs & LCSWs; 7 Contact Hours for National Certified Addiction Counselors; OR .7 General CEUs from UMBC

 

Continuing education information listed under the course description is only applicable when attending an ICISF Regional Training

 

Successful completion of the Approved Instructor Candidate Program will allow you to teach this curriculum to others. Continuing education will be required to maintain your instructor status.

Prerequisites for participation in the Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection Approved Instructor Candidate Program:

  • ICISF Approved Instructor in good standing for:
    • Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support OR
    • Group Crisis Intervention
  • Have taught no less than three Individual  Crisis Intervention and Peer Support or Group Crisis Intervention courses with good student evaluations.
  • Minimum three years in Healthcare related occupation or setting.
  • A letter of recommendation from a local, state or regional CISM team or agency / institution dated within three months of application due date.
  • A letter of endorsement from a local, state or regional CISM coordinator or clinical director dated within three months of application due date.

** At least one of the letters of recommendation must attest to the instructor candidate’s teaching ability. If neither of the aforementioned letters can do so, a third letter must be submitted.

  • A copy of a current CV or resume.
  • A brief statement outlining:
  • Your crisis intervention/CISM experience.
  • Active membership on a crisis intervention team
  • Your instructional experience.
  • Reasons for applying for ICISF Approved Instructor Training.