Supporting Provider Wellbeing

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 1 hour and 30 minutes 
COST: Free
TARGET AUDIENCE: General Audience
LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Introductory 
PREREQUISITE(S): None
INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks 
ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of all audio and video components

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Describe and summarize the benefits of resilience in comparison to the risk factors associated with lowered professional wellbeing, including secondary traumatic stress and moral injury.
• Describe and apply cognitive appraisal and the cognitive triad as tools for emotion regulation as well as common thought distortions that apply to the workplace.
• Discuss and summarize effective workplace communication strategies, boundary-setting skills, and resilience-building resources.

MODULE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Module 1: Self Awareness

• Recognize the signs and symptoms that might affect wellbeing
• Evaluate an emotional state
• Practice self-reflection as a way to build self-awareness

Module 2: Emotion Regulation

• Recognize the role of stress in emotion dysregulation
• Explain how thoughts, feelings and actions are connected
• Apply tools of emotion regulation to positively impact wellbeing

Module 3: Effective Communication

• Recognize the challenge of communicating under stress
• Describe how effective communication can positively impact the wellbeing of self and others
• Apply effective communication techniques

Module 4: Boundary Management

• Recognize how challenges with boundary management can lead to burnout, secondary traumatic stress and moral injury
• Apply strategies for effective boundary management

Module 5: Professional Wellbeing

• Characterize work-related obstacles to wellbeing
• Identify how core skills work together
• Review key concepts from the course

TIMED COURSE OUTLINE

Course Activities for CE Credit (≥ 1 hour 49 minutes)*

• Pre-Course Assessment (9 minutes)
• Prologue (3+ minutes)
• Module 1: Self Awareness (14+ minutes)
• Module 2: Emotion Regulation (24+ minutes)
• Module 3: Effective Communication (18+ minutes)
• Module 4: Boundary Management (16+ minutes)
• Module 5: Professional Wellbeing (16+ minutes)
• Post-Course Assessment (9 minutes)

Course Activities NOT for CE Credit

• Participant Evaluation (5-10 minutes)

*NOTE: Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover.