Mental Health of Nurses: Supporting You and Your Nursing Colleagues When They Need It Most (Free for ANA Members)
Dr. LaKeetra Josey will share her expertise as a practitioner and researcher during this session. She will focus on insight and strategies for mental health concerns in the nursing population.
Webinar Details
Overview
Nursing, as a caring profession, can be both rewarding and stressful. Your work can affect our mental health. It’s essential that we take care of each other and ourselves. Nurses often don’t recognize how chronic stress and world events impact our psychological wellbeing. Join ANA’s webinar to learn how you can improve your skills in identifying and offering support for mental health challenges for you and your colleagues.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Recognize signs of mental health distress in yourself and co-workers
- Recognize signs of compassion fatigue, PTSD, and chronic stress
- Apply at least one mental health strategy to support yourself and your colleagues
Presented By
LaKeetra Josey, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Dr. Josey is certified as a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and works with patients across the lifespan in her private practice, YOUr Center, LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. She is also co-founder of Phoenix Center for Health and Wellness, LLC, a Substance Use Disorder treatment program. She is certified as a Master Psychopharmacologist from the Neuroscience Education Institute. She is the former Associate Program Director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and the former Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Nursing in the College of Public Health at Temple University. She is also the president of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) / ANA Minority Fellowship Program Alumni Working Group.
Online Details
Event Date: August 19, 2020
Event Time: 1:00 PM ET
