Description

Nursing professionals serve on the front lines within the healthcare environment. Nurses provide care in a variety of settings to patients. Nursing professionals are under undue stress, which impacts them emotionally. Within healthcare organizations, bullying is a cause for concern as aggression can impact patient and organizational outcomes. Bullying is identified as an emotion-based response, often triggered by challenges in the workplace. Workplace bullying continues to be an escalating issue that contributes to increased stress, toxic work environments, and decreased job satisfaction among nursing professionals. All these factors lead to a poor work environment, which is detrimental to organizations. Nurses are faced with the ability to recognize and address negative workplace behaviors, such as bullying. However, they may not be aware of the strategies needed to facilitate improvement. Nurses may not be aware of how to use emotional intelligence to lessen workplace bullying and violence. Therefore, educating nurses on how to use emotional intelligence to lessen workplace bullying and violence could foster a positive workplace for nurses in the future. By viewing this presentation, you will earn 1 hour of nursing continuing professional development credit.

Expiration Date: 09-14-2024

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this activity, you will be able to:

Gain strategies on how to use emotional intelligence to lessen workplace bullying and violence
Report increased confidence on how to use emotional intelligence to lessen workplace bullying and violence

Faculty Bio

Mary Bemker-Page

Dr. Mary Bemker-Page is a recognized scholar and practitioner, a dynamic and forward – thinking nurse educator/administrator, and an individual with a deep commitment to nursing and mental health. In addition to teaching at the university level for over 25 years, Dr. Bemker worked extensively in community mental health with high-risk youths and adolescents. Dr. Bemker started and maintained a counseling and development department for a Fortune 500 Company, and she worked on both an intensive care psychiatric unit and the emergency department in the hospital setting. She has worked 20 plus years in a private practice with specializations in addictions, PTSD and trauma issues, and family dynamics. She co-edited and wrote several chapters in three nursing textbooks. The population health textbook was selected as the 2018 AJN Book of the Year for advanced practice nurses. A fourth nursing textbook focusing on graduate level leadership is in process.

Dr. Bemker is a Quality Matters Peer Reviewer, lead for Disaster Mental Health (American Red Cross Kentuckiana Chapter) and offers Services to the Armed Forces via workshops and community outreach. Presentations on the above topics at professional conferences, community events and via written works are something that Dr. Bemker enjoys. Dr. Bemker is a Henderson Fellow and a Fellow in the American Association of Social Psychiatry. As an administrator, Dr., Bemker has work in community health, education and healthcare administration. She has served on a variety of organization boards and is past president of two Rotary Clubs and a Paul Harris Fellow. Dr. Mary Bemker is core faculty in the MSN Program at Walden University.

Accreditation Statement

Walden University College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development through the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Provider Unit P0469.

While professional development activities offered by an American Nurses Credentialing Center Provider Unit typically satisfy the requirements of most states, Walden University recommends that participants ensure that the content offered meets their individual requirements. To the extent that contact hours must be approved within one’s state of residence or licensure, participants should check with their state board of nursing before enrolling in any professional development activity. The state board of nursing determines the number and type of contact hours that can be claimed for professional development activities.

Disclosure

The planners and presenters of this nursing continuing professional development activity have disclosed no financial interests and no receipt of in-kind materials or funding that could influence the planning or presentation of this content.

ADA Accommodation Statement

If you need accommodations to attend this webinar, please e-mail [email protected].

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WANC1011 - Using Emotional Intelligence to Lessen Workplace Bullying and Violence