WHAT STRESS IN HEALTHCARE?
A 1-day seminar

STRESS affects increasing numbers of the working population but it is recognised as a particular problem amongst healthcare professionals in a health service which is becoming increasingly demanding. Health professionals face special difficulties and this seminar is designed to offer practical advice and coping strategies to them in particular

 WHO WILL BENEFIT?

Nurses, Doctors, Health Visitors, General Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Primary Care Staff. Occupational Health Staff, Outpatient and Residential Care staff. Professionals working with stress-affected patients will also benefit from learning about techniques that can be applied in clinical settings to assist the patient.

 WHAT IF I DO NOT FIT INTO THESE CATEGORIES?

The seminar is suitable for anyone working in healthcare. Counsellors working in primary care, pharmacists, healthcare administrators and reception staff would also benefit.

 WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE SEMINAR?

The programme is designed to :

• Provide the latest clinical and scientific information on stress & its management;
• Allow you to upgrade your personal and professional stress management skills
• Provide you with a range of techniques for coping with stress in your healthcare setting
• Increase your awareness of personal stress and develop 'emotional immunity'
• Provide additional approaches for the professional that can be used in clinical settings with patients.

THE SPEAKER

"Excellent Speaker. Brilliant course!" (Doctor, Wales)

MARTIN DAVIES RMN,Dip.CPN., has co-written the Royal College of General Practitioners book ''What Stress! In Primary Care" with Prof. Ruth Chambers and contributed to the 'Depression Skills Pack' (Talking Life). He is the principle tutor for the national Depression Care Training Centre and has been running stress management workshops for NHS staff around the U.K. for many years. His illustrations have been published in Private Eye and have been extensively used in dozens of other publications. His presentations are lively and amusing, yet contain serious messages for us all - bring your sense of humour (or what is left of it!)

TALKING LIFE specialises in seminars for health professionals. Its range of seminars have been attended by thousands of health professionals from within and without the NHS.

PROGRAMME

Registration 8.45 am - 9.30 am

9.30-10.30: SESSION 1

10 Stress in healthcare…
Stigma and attitudes
Issues and common concerns
What helps… and what hinders

10.30-11.00: COFFEE

11.00-12.30: SESSION 2

11 “What’s Bugging You?”
12 The ‘continuums’
13 The stages of burnout
14 ‘I.Q’ or ‘E.Q’?

12.30-13.30: LUNCH BREAK

13.30-15.00: SESSION 3

15 Understanding yourself… and others
16 Insight and improving awareness
17 Having choices…?
18 Assertiveness…applying ‘E.Q’

15.00-15.30: TEA

15.30-16.00: SESSION 4

Consider some everyday points
Sharing key points with others

VENUES & DATES

2003 dates TBC

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