Write Your Way Through Emotional Difficulty and Stress: Journaling for Self-Care

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Persistent and often overwhelming work challenges can exact a heavy toll on nurses, placing them at great risk for burnout, anxiety and exhaustion. Creative writing and journaling can have a positive impact on these risks. The benefits of writing as a coping strategy and mindfulness practice are discussed in this presentation. Specific writing techniques to assist with decreasing stress and to foster improved self-awareness are taught. Session complexity: foundational.

Objectives

Review literature on journaling/creative writing and its impact on healthcare professionals.
Define potential benefits writing can imbue in regard to self-awareness, releasing emotions and synthesizing complex situations.
Explain/teach specific writing techniques with the potential to assist with decreasing stress and improving overall sense of wellbeing.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.