Over the past few years, faculty and students have been through trauma together. Some of us may have experienced several traumatic experiences during the most stressful time of our lives. Some, like me, may have used all their protective factors and resilience stores and finally hit rock bottom, completely exhausted and cynical. This is burnout. When burnout occurs, our stress in the workplace or classroom feels unmanageable. Once at this broken level, we are prone to experiencing a moral injury. This webinar shares essential practices for climbing back up the spiral and finding joy again.
By the end of this workshop, participants know or will be able to:
All webinar participants can obtain, at no additional cost:
Dr. Kimberly Uddo received her doctoral degree from Loyola University, where she received the Nightingale Award. She is a certified critical care nurse (CCRN) and a certified nurse educator (CNE). She is also a workplace wellness specialist. The issues encountered while teaching nursing students in the intensive care unit during the pandemic sparked her research interest in workplace well-being. She conducted a pilot study on Building Nursing Student Resilience. She later received an endowed professorship on this subject. She has researched resilience, burnout, civility, incivility, workplace well-being, and moral injury. She now participates in new employee onboarding and presents the topic of academic civility. She has served on the Culture Task Force, which is a community college-wide committee. She has served Delgado Community College since 1999 as a nursing faculty member, where she received the Seymour Weiss Excellence in Teaching Award.
