Stoicism and Cognitive Strategies for Nursing Professional Development.

BACKGROUND: Nurse educators are experiencing a vocational crisis, and the unsustainable rate at which nurses are leaving the profession impacts the health of the nation. Nurse educators, including academic and professional development faculty and preceptors, need skills to manage the complex academic and clinical environments. This article describes the development of a course for nurse educators and preceptors around Stoicism and cognitive strategies, describes the perceived takeaways of one group of learners who experienced the course, and offers recommendations for the use of this content. METHOD: This course was evaluated with survey data from 23 nurse educators for demographic information and use of strategies after an educational course. RESULTS: Participants identified several specific takeaways from the training that could be incorporated into their personal, teaching, and clinical practices. Themes included emotional regulation, using the cognitive triangle, and managing stress in emotionally charged situations with patients and colleagues through creating a healthy emotional distance to better evaluate situations. CONCLUSION: Stoicism and cognitive strategies are important additions to nurse educator personal and professional development. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 202x;5x(x):xx-xx.].

Trauma Informed Care for Nursing Action Bachelor of Science in Nursing Course.

BACKGROUND: Nurses commonly experience psychological trauma with high risk for a host of mental health concerns such as suicide, depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders, as well as high rates of burnout and moral injury. Despite rigorous academic preparation, baccalaureate nursing education curricula lack content on the widespread effects of trauma. METHOD: Using a trauma informed care (TIC) model, an innovative course called Trauma Informed Care for Nursing Action (TIC4NA) was created. RESULTS: This course allows students to safely explore the profession of nursing to transform their learning about trauma related to patient care, the nursing community, and society. CONCLUSION: TIC curriculum delivery offers supportive strategies to mitigate negative outcomes during nursing school. This content could have positive effects on nurse and nursing student retention as well as mitigating a barrage of negative outcomes for individual nurses and the nursing profession. [J Nurs Educ. 2024;63(4):233-240.].

Providing Gender Sensitive and Responsive Trauma-Informed Psychiatric Nursing Care. How Hard Can It Be?

This paper addresses the challenge of providing gender sensitive and responsive trauma-informed care (TIC) in psychiatric nursing practice. Gender identity, gender subordination, and gender-related trauma history are examined as three key individual-level factors that affect nurses' capacity to engage therapeutically to provide gender sensitive and responsive TIC. Using Peplau's Interpersonal Theory and building on a shared trauma and resilience model, gender-sensitive and responsive TIC is situated within interpersonal science and the ability of the psychiatric nurse to attune to her own and her patient's gender ideologies. Strategies for transforming practice including self-reflection, self-compassion, and peer and supervisor support are reviewed. Noting the import of the practice environment, several observations of changes needed at the level of the unit, organization, and society to effect gender equitable policies that enable the implementation of gender-sensitive and responsive TIC are made.

American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel Consensus Statement on leveraging equity in policy to improve recognition and treatment of mental health, substance use disorders, and nurse suicide.

Rates of nurse mental health and substance use disorders are high. Heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses are challenged to care for patients in ways that often jeopardize their own health and increase risks for their families. These trends exacerbate the epidemic of suicide in nursing underscored by several professional organization clarion calls to nurses' risk. Principles of health equity and trauma-informed care dictate urgent action. The purpose of this paper is to establish consensus among clinical and policy leaders from Expert Panels of the American Academy of Nursing about actions to address risks to mental health and factors contributing to nurse suicide. Recommendations for mitigating barriers drew from the CDC's 2022 Suicide Prevention Resource for Action strategies to guide the nursing community to inform policy, education, research, and clinical practice with the goals of greater health promotion, risk reduction, and sustainment of nurses' health and well-being are provided.

How Do We Move Forward With Trauma-Informed Care?

Trauma is not limited to adverse childhood events or abuse, but also a host of situations of loss, chronic stressors, and now the COVID-19 pandemic. Interprofessional teams must be able to recognize and treat trauma on the frontlines and behind the scenes. Understanding, assessing, and educating staff and patients on trauma, its physical and mental effects, and using trauma-informed approaches in practices throughout the health care system is vital for nursing and the multidisciplinary team. We provide an overview of trauma and its effects and how to help patients at all levels of recovery moving forward.

Leadership After a Crisis: The Application of Psychological First Aid.

Nursing leaders have voiced concern about the health and well-being of nurses and other healthcare providers during the recovery phase of disaster response after the coronavirus pandemic. There is much that can be learned from the experiences of our military colleagues. Behavioral health military nurses serving on readiness teams have educated leaders on how to apply psychological first aid (PFA) within their units during the recovery phase of disasters. This article will describe how nursing leaders can use PFA to enhance psychological support and resilience in their staff.

A Tale of Two Compulsions - Two Case Studies Using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Although research for accelerated resolution therapy (ART) has been predominately for post-traumatic stress disorder, ART has shown promise as a treatment for other behavioral health conditions as well. ART is a brief, trauma-focused, eye movement-based therapy that has been successfully utilized to treat a wide array of behavioral health disorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder. This article will present an overview of the theory behind the reconsolidation concept used in ART and two cases of obsessive compulsive disorder treatment using ART with outcome measures visual trend analysis.