5 Steps to Trauma-Free Nursing
5 Steps to Trauma-Free Nursing is a blueprint designed to show nurses how to stop job related traumatization. It is a guide to help nurses create a safe healthcare environment for themselves and for their patients. And most importantly, 5 Steps to Trauma-Free Nursing increases the nurses ability to provide healing care.
Physicians and other healthcare professionals are welcome to attend and will benefit from this training.
Step One: The Body Selectric
How the Body Moves From Fight, Flight, Freeze Back to Flow
Step One offers an experiential understanding of how the nervous system automatically selects the right response when the individual perceives safety, danger or life-threat. Participants will learn how to interrupt the traumatic stress continuum in order to reduce sympathetic adrenal activation and create a felt sense experience of safety in themselves and in those they care for.
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Demonstrate the felt sense regulation of your autonomic nervous system.
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Discuss neuroception.
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Describe the Polyvagal theory.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Two: For-Profit Healthcare Created Traumatic Stress
Causes, Prevention and Treatment
Step Two examines for-profit healthcare practices that can be contributing factors in causing trauma.
Traumatic stress prevention and treatment strategies will be presented along with traumatic stress assessment tools.
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Identify sources of traumatization in the current healthcare system.
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Describe new approaches to treat traumatic stress.
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Discuss the implementation of new trauma treatments into the current healthcare system.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Three: Healing Your Presence
How Childhood Wounds Can Lead to Exploitation
Step Three focuses on how adaptation to early childhood wounding affects the nurses ability to be a healing presence for themselves and for others. Additional moral wounding caused by unrelenting professional demands and exploitation will also be explored.
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Identify the five basic core needs everyone is born with.
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Describe shame behaviors associated with developmental trauma.
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Explain how adaptive behaviors can lead to exploitation.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Four: Stepping Up Your Game
The Power of the 12 Steps of Healing Care
Step Four offers nurses a simple but powerful spiritual approach to effective systems change. It draws on evidence based practices that have healed family systems for almost 100 years.
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Discuss the spiritual underpinnings of nursing practice.
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Recognize the influence of spiritual power in systems change.
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Describe the 12 Steps of Healing Care.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Five: Looking In/Speaking Out
Rebirth, Revival and Transformation
Step Five uses body-centered communication to distill, focus, remember and amplify what it means to be a person working as a nurse.
Participants will be presented with options on how to move beyond the constraints of an identity defined by roles, titles, degrees and the ability to respond to unrelenting professional demands.
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Describe unmasking the authentic self.
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Discover the qualities of embodied experience.
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Discuss options for speaking your truth.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”