Victim Service Providers: Tools for Secondary Trauma Support in Forensic Nursing
Dates: May 2, 2024
Meets: Th from 12 N to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar
Zoom - No Charge: $0.00
There are still openings remaining at this time.
Secondary trauma is a normal by-product of the work done when working with trauma populations. Clinicians and staff are tested daily for empathy, compassion, and resiliency. However, normalized acceptance of this risk has severe consequences related to emotional, mental and physical needs if left untreated. Do you work in settings that involve violence, catastrophic illness, abuse, grief & loss or even workplace incivility? How does your job assess secondary trauma needs of staff? Is it prioritized, delayed, or overlooked? Caring for patients or communities needing intense recovery pathways often lends the majority of providers with quiet symptoms of traumatic stress. Eventually, those unattended stress responses foreshadow a loud impact to personal and professional longevity. A wellness recovery model is lacking in today’s healthcare industry as a whole. In this program, victim service providers will focus on intentional personal awareness, self-care and a workplace wellness response to promote trauma healing. From within, it is where resiliency will begin. By attending this session, attendees will champion the reduction of secondary trauma in diverse care environments to lead the change for trauma healing now and in the future for all professionals.
Target Audience: Forensic Nurses, APRNs, Ancillary Staff, Trauma Professionals, Child Advocacy Teams, Child Welfare Professionals, and Multidisciplinary Teams (Palliative, Crisis Care, Justice System). Those with lived experience will learn specific self-care strategies before, during, and after a public engagement.
Continuing Education Hours: 1.5
Notes:
| Fee: | $0.00 |
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| Hours: | 1.50 |
Zoom Webinar
Nikol Hamilton
Nikol is the CEO/Owner of Nourish Psychiatry, and she remains an active faculty member at the University of Arkansas nursing program. Nikol is a dual master’s prepared advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) with over 20+years of nursing experience that includes pediatrics, adult health, nursing education, nursing research, legal nurse consulting, population health, tele-health, nurse entrepreneurship and faith community nursing. She graduated in 2017 from the University of Cincinnati with a post-master’s as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. In 2009, she received a Master of Science in Nursing as a Family/ Community Clinical Nurse Specialist and Certified Nurse Educator from the University of Central AR in Conway, AR. She achieved her Bachelors in Nursing in 2001 at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA.Her specialties include working with clients with medical trauma, catastrophic & unexpected grief/loss, mood disorders, psychosomatic issues and spirituality concerns or forensic mental health care needs. She desires to help clients restore feelings of stability and well-being using a brain body approach is fundamental to her practice. Offering a holistic approach to mental healthcare with emphasis on teaching, education, and overall resiliency is integral to her passion at Nourish Psychiatry!
Fun facts: she enjoys barrel racing, Texas travel, dancing, concerts, reading, forensics and all things Pioneer Woman recipes or TobyMac!
Favorite quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
