Webinar Materials
JUNE 2017 Webinar
Self-care/compassion fatigue Presented by Jim Manzardo, BCC
June 15, 2017
Program Summary
Compassion fatigue encompasses secondary trauma and burnout from constant caring for others in tragic circumstances. Chaplains are uniquely positioned to recognize and address this phenomenon in hospital staff. We describe an ongoing effort to address compassion fatigue in a large pediatric intensive care unit using a collaborative multidisciplinary approach, in which the chaplain has played an integral multifunctional role. Participants in this webinar are encouraged to share ways they engage team members in efforts to build resilience and reduce compassion fatigue.
Program Objectives By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize risk factors for compassion fatigue and how to identify compassion fatigue in hospital staff.
- Describe one hospital's interdisciplinary, collaborative process to address staff compassion fatigue.
- Understand the breadth and importance of the chaplain's role in identifying compassion fatigue and building resilience in staff.
About the Presenters
Jim Manzardo is a chaplain at the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where he has worked for the past two years in the pediatric intensive care unit. Previously, he was the primary chaplain for the Hematology-Oncology-Stem Cell Transplant service for nineteen years. He also has been part of the Palliative Care and Ethics teams and is a facilitator of a nursing transitions program for new nurses during their first year of nursing. Jim also has been incorporating mindfulness meditation into the hospital environment.
Kristi Thime is the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Manager of Patient Care Operations at the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Kristi began in the PICU as a staff nurse after graduation in 1994. She currently oversees a staff of 120 nurses and 10 nursing assistants. In her role, she advises several nursing committees including the nursing bereavement committee, which is how she became involved in the R3 project. She feels privileged to work with a highly-trained, compassionate staff that strives each day to make every patient experience exceptional.
Courtney Piha has been a PICU nurse for 7 years. Prior to coming to Lurie Children’s hospital in April, 2012, she worked in Lutheran General’s PICU from August 2009-April 2012. Currently she is the co-chair of the PICU bereavement committee as well as a member of the hospital ethics committee. With the help of a pediatric intensivist, nurse manager and chaplain, she created the R3 debriefing tool for the PICU. The R3 has been well received and is now available house wide. She recently presented the R3 debriefing tool at the Society of Critical Care Medicine in Hawaii and plans to present the tool at the Nursing Ethics Conference in March.
Materials
June 15 NACC webinar
Compassion Fatigue and Collaboration_3 slides per page
CEH certificate
CEH certificate (all 2017 webinars) (PDF)
Webinar recordings
June 15, 2017 webinar recording