Ripple Effect

Tools & Strategies to Thrive in a Changing World

TO BE RESILIENT, WE MUST PAUSE AND PUT OUR OWN OXYGEN MASK ON FIRST IF WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE THERE TO CARE FOR OTHERS.  OUR RIPPLE EFFECT PROGRAM IS ALL ABOUT HELPING NURSES AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO PAUSE TO BREATHE.

In keeping with the Center’s coaching philosophy, our team has created a program to support the healthcare workforce through these difficult times and beyond.  The goal of the program is to offer a two-pronged approach to provide caregivers and leaders the necessary tools and strategies to continue to ride the waves through the storm and come out the other side thriving, stronger, and confident to face the uncertainty of what lies ahead.  The programs include: Learning Sessions and Coaching. Both are open to all healthcare disciplines and support staff. 

These programs are offered throughout the year, check back for future dates. The Center can also bring this training directly to your organization through a consulting agreement providing a customized program for your team.

Learning Sessions

There are 6 sessions in each learning series. Each session will provide different tools to help participants walk away with a toolbox of strategies to empower their journey and support them as they begin to replant themselves firmly while continuing to have the agility needed to navigate their boat through the next wave of the storm.

Session 1

Resiliency: Rowing Against the Wind

Expert Speaker: Deb Center, PhD, MSN, RN, CNS, CTA-CC, Chief Program Officers

This session offers an awareness of how participants react to stressful situations, such as COVID-19, and explores contributing factors that affect personal resilience. Different tools will be explored to use in personal resilience training that will contribute to personal growth and overall well-being. 

Learning objectives:

  • Verbalize contributing factors that affect resilience.
  • Identify steps to build self-resilience.

Session 2

Calming the Waters: Resetting Your Course

Expert Speaker: Amanda Quintana, DNP, RN, FNP, Sr. Project Director

This session will examine moral distress and determine if assuming that perspective serves us personally and professionally. Together we will discuss what contingency plans actually look like and how they are implemented. You will identify strategies to examine your current perspective to determine whether or not it is serving you or if some shift may serve you better.

Learning objectives:

  • Explore the concepts of moral distress.
  • Identify differences between goals with contingency plans and normal patient care functioning.
  • Explore strategies to shift perspective from your own.

Session 3

Growth Mindset: Your Navigation Through the Unknown

Expert Speaker: Tiffany Chohfi, MSN, RN, CNE Clinical Scholar, Co-active Coach, Project Director

In times of crisis, having a growth mindset can help navigate us through turbulent waters. Everyone experiences crisis in their own way. Intentional reflection on our mindset acts as an anchor when the water feels like it may capsize your boat. A growth mindset is a powerful tool that we will teach you that takes practice, courage, and vulnerability. Join this session to explore how you can use a growth mindset as your compass of light.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
  • Identify and reflect on where your mindset tends to live.
  • Identify tools and resources to help you live in the mindset that serves you best.

Session 4

Compassion Fatigue: Finding Heart in a Storm

Expert Speaker: Carmen Luttrell, MSN, RN, Project Director

Compassion fatigue has resurfaced during the pandemic.  Compassion fatigue is a term often linked to front-line caregivers that if not addressed, can lead to burnout.  Together we will explore its impact in order to identify strategies to rediscover and practice compassion satisfaction.  

Session learning objectives:

  • Understand compassion fatigue and how it differs from burnout.
  • Identify tools to find your way back to compassion satisfaction.

Session 5

Good Grief: Honoring Grief and Loss

Expert Speakers: Briana Kohlbrenner, MSW, LSW, Assistant Project Director & Mauritha Hughes, MS Ed, BSN, Project Director

Recognizing that in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis we all very likely are experiencing some form of loss that can impact our daily interactions and behaviors.  Grief is a normal process that is expressed and experienced differently by everyone.  How do you acknowledge grief and loss? How do you support others that are grieving during these unprecedented times? How do we move forward together?

Learning objectives:

  • Acknowledge and honor the grief and loss associated with COVID-19.
  • Discuss the manifestations of grief and loss during a pandemic.
  • Identify stages, emotions, and expressions of grief.
  • Determine strategies to acknowledge and move forward with grief personally and collectively.

Session 6

Putting on Your Life Vest: Self-care to Keep You Afloat

Expert Speaker: Susan Moyer, RN, MS, CNSPH, Co-active Coach, Project Director

All the sessions in this series have been working towards self-care.  Self-care is the most important strategy for developing resiliency, coping during times of uncertainty, and resetting our compass.  The group will discuss the value of self-care and help each other develop a care plan for ensuring that life vests are fully inflated to take us from survival to thriving in times of rapid change.

 Learning objectives:

  • Identify the four key dimensions of self-care.
  • Recognize the impact of your self-care on others.
  • Identify three strategies for integrating self-care into a daily routine.

Coaching

If you want to take action or are interested in increasing your leadership confidence, emotional intelligence or resiliency, we encourage you to consider working directly with one of our expert leadership and executive coaches.  Our coaching approach is based on a co-creative partnership that begins by designing an alliance upfront where we establish goals and expectations for our time together. Learn about our coaching programs available to support you team or contact Deb Center for more information at Deb@ColoradoNursingCenter.org.

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