Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 3:00pm to Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 4:30pm ET
Expiration Date:
Access to the evaluation and certificate for the live webinar will be available until Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 7:00pm ET
Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health and legal professionals involved in the care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview:
Although compassion fatigue is a predictable response in “helping” professions, it is rarely addressed in a systematic an ongoing basis. This webinar emphasizes that compassion fatigue is a preventable and natural consequence of working with traumatized populations. Understanding it, planning for it, and preventing it can increase the sustainability of employees devoted to this work, such as healthcare workers, law enforcement and military personnel, teachers, and social workers. In this webinar, participants will learn what compassion fatigue is, how to identify and describe its signs and symptoms, and how to develop self-care practices.
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Define Compassion Fatigue
- Describe 3 signs and symptoms of Compassion Fatigue
- Describe factors in the “culture of care” that can perpetuate compassion fatigue
- Develop a plan for self-care practices
Presenter(s):
Ecoee Rooney, MSN, RN-BC
Ecoee Rooney, MSN, RN-BC has been a forensic nurse since the fall of 1999. She has spoken regionally and internationally on a variety of nursing topics including ethical practice, self-care, compassion fatigue, HIV post exposure prophylaxis protocols, practice excellence, and has served as faculty for SANE courses for over 13 years, spearheading efforts to update the educational curriculum for Louisiana SANE training at several points, once to include the concept of self-care in 2003. She contributed the chapter addressing sexual assault to the Encyclopedia of Traumatology, co-authored a chapter entitled Healing through Teaching in an NLN publication regarding educators, and co-authored a chapter in the Core Curriculum for Nursing Professional Development entitled Elements of Nursing Professional Development Practice: Educator/Academic Liaison. In 2010 she became a Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator through the Figley Institute of Traumatology. She is currently the Director of Nursing Professional Development and Practice Excellence at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nursing and Other Continuing Education Accreditation Statement:
The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. JBS International, Inc. is an approved provider through NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (Provider Number 000208).
Nursing and Other Continuing Education Credit Designation:
The International Association of Forensic Nurses designates this live activity for 1.5 Nursing CE Credits. JBS International, Inc. designates this live activity for 1.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Credits.
The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:
| Name of Faculty or Presenter | Reported Financial Relationship |
|---|---|
| Joan “Ecoee” Rooney, MSN, RN-BC | Nothing to disclose |
The following International Assoication of Forensic Nurses planners and managers, Kim Day, RN, FNE A/P, SANE-A, SANE-P, Jenifer Markowitz, ND, RN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P and Sarah Tucker, BA, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months
Media:
Enduring activity
CNE CEU Evaluation:
Nurses: How to Obtain your CEU or CNE Certificate
IAFN and JBS will use their standard activity evaluation for CNE and CEU.
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