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Caring for the Nurse

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Caring for the Nurse Gallery

group of nurses from caring for the nurse retreat
group of nurses from caring for the nurse retreat
yoga session for the retreat
yoga session for the retreat
person being served a sample from retreat
person being served a sample from retreat
nurses at the caring for the nurse retreat
nurses at the caring for the nurse retreat

Participants will focus on self-care and finding new ways to cope with stress. The course is four hours in length and begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m. Lunch will be served to attendees.

Agenda
9:00 a.m. Nutrition
Food Prep Demo & Session with the UAMS Culinary Medicine Program

10:00 a.m. Mindfulness & Gratitude
Nurturing the Mind with the UAMS Mindfulness Program

11:00 a.m. Movement
Yoga for Healthcare Providers with Sherri Youngblood
15 minute break

12:00 p.m. Journaling & Resources
How to Journal & Why with Get Healthy UAMS

Lunch will be served during the noon session.

For registration, please email Tina Davis at tdavis@uams.edu

More information:

This retreat is focused on frontline nurses, and concentrates on strategies to combat stress and burnout in the nursing profession.

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In a 2017 study conducted with UAMS multi-professionals, nurses demonstrated higher odds of all three types of burnout including, work related, personal and patient/client related burnout with nurses demonstrating the highest of all professions examined in personal burnout (Messias, Gathright, Freeman, Flynn, Atkinson, Thrush, Clardy and Thapa, 2018). Furthermore, a study conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation demonstrated nurses suffer from depression at a rate that doubles the general population (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) in 2012.

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