Trauma and Caregiving: Risk and Protective Factors

Activity Description

Caregiving can be physically, emotionally and financially challenging (ACL, 2022; Sullivan & Miller, 2015). Healthcare providers are also caregivers (Sullivan & Miller, 2015). This presentation aims to define the role of the caregiver, highlight the challenges of being a caregiver, focus on risk and protective factors associated with trauma and caregiving, and highlight tools to support caregivers to effectively care for themselves, to ensure they can best care for their patients and/or the care receiver.

Target Audience

Nurses
Physicians

Learning Objectives

  1. Define caregiving and the role of caregivers

  2. Identify and explain the relationship between caregiver trauma and care receiver trauma

  3. Discuss the role of the healthcare team to support caregivers

  4. Distinguish vicarious and secondary trauma and how it impacts caregivers

  5. Choose one option for caregiver support that you will implement or research this month

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 IPCE
Course opens: 
02/20/2023
Course expires: 
02/20/2026
NameRoleDisclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships with Ineligible Company

Shelby Schroeder

Social Worker

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Emily Luft

Social Worker

Planner & SpeakerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Mary Mogg-Postle

Social Worker

Planner & SpeakerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Byanka Romero-Williams

Nurse

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Kari Muskopf

Occupational Therapist | Other licensed training

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Mandy Lin

Other | Other non-licensed training

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Cara Rossi

Social Worker

Planner & SpeakerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Tamiko Foster

Physician

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Chris Hoover

Nurse

Independent ReviewerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education (Centene Institute) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. Centene Institute ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.

None of the Centene Institute staff members have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 
 
 
Credit Designation Statements
 
Physicians
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this Internet Activity (Enduring Material) for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Nurses
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this Internet Activity (Enduring Material) for a maximum of 1.50 ANCC contact hours.
 
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 IPCE
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