Mindsets and Mindfulness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Webinar Overview
Kindred Healthcare is a nationwide organization that supports patients in two unique long-term settings; long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals. Nurses in these settings are exposed to complex patients that require a skillset to manage high-pressure situations and difficult conversations. With the goal to keep our patients and caregivers protected from COVID-19 and continue to prepare a patient for a lower level of care or to get back to their normal functional level, nurses that have a toolkit for personal well-being will be more effective and satisfied in their work, their lives, their relationships, and with themselves. This webinar will introduce common problematic mindsets, metacognition, and mindful awareness techniques to help control the mind and body response to stress inherent in the nursing profession especially in these trying times.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- The learner will consider how mindsets attribute to personal distress.
- Understand common negative automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions.
- Create a toolkit of techniques to enhance personal well-being.
- Apply concepts to nursing in long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital settings and as it relates to the pressure of supporting patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers
Laura Dailey, PhDApprentice Program Manager
Kindred Healthcare
Dr. Dailey graduated from Missouri State University and Saint Louis University with a bachelor of science in business, a master’s degree in Student Affairs, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration respectively. Currently she is spearheading the development of Kindred Healthcare’s new Nursing Student Program and Career Accelerator Registered Apprenticeship Program. Previously, she served as the Assistant Director for the Saint Louis University Pre-Health and Pre-Law Program and Director for the Utah Valley University School of the Arts Advising Office. Her professional and personal studies focus on the impact of mindfulness and resiliency among students and professionals in healthcare. As a manager with Kindred, she has incorporated mindfulness and resiliency training into her work across the United States.
Ana McCorkhill-Jones, BSN, RNEducation Coordinator
Kindred St Louis South
Ana McCorkhill-Jones is a graduate of Maryville University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from Saint Louis University with a minor in Education. She is an 8 year Seabee combat veteran as a Hospital Corpsman and Construction Mechanic. Currently, she is the hospital's nurse educator over all staff at Kindred St Louis South and previously served as floor nurse and nurse supervisor at each of Kindred's hospitals in Missouri. She is instrumental in providing education on all resources available to help increase mindfulness, productivity and time management skills. She is also instrumental in reducing staff's caregiver stress and compassion fatigue due to emotional investments which naturally occur when caring for patients much longer than the national average length of stay.
Hillary Harrison, BSN, RN, CRRNDirector of Infection Control and Prevention
Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services
Dr. Mensik earned a PhD in Nursing from the University of Arizona College of Nursing with a major focus in health systems and a minor in public administration from the Eller College of Management.
Hillary Harrison is a graduate of Texas Christians University in Fort Worth, Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). After graduation she began working as a staff RN at Texas Rehabilitation Hospital (TRH) of Fort Worth. Continuing at TRH Fort Worth, she transitioned to the role of Hospital Educator and Outcomes Coordinator. After becoming a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse, she became the Infection Control Nurse and Hospital Educator for TRH Fort Worth. In 2018, she went to work for John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth as an Infection Preventionist RN and earned her Certification in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Last year she returned to Kindred Healthcare to work as part of the student programs team to connect with nursing programs and students around the country. Due to the pandemic she became an Infection Control resource for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and recently moved into the role of Director of Infection Control and Prevention for Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits:
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.