Stress 101 - Online Inservice

Course overview

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 90% of all physician visits are stress-related. It is important for health professionals to understand the dynamics of stress, how stress contributes to illness, and what to do to change stress habits. In this course, healthcare professionals will be able to identify how the stress response works, the different kinds of stress, and many strategies for releasing stress quickly and also handling chronic stress and specifically stress in the workplace. The outcome of this class is that the nurse aide will have more awareness and skill in identifying, understanding, and handling all kinds of stressors more effectively for self and for patients/clients.