One of the most unappreciated job is teaching. Teachers face unheard of amounts of stress working with students. In addition to behavioral issues with students, teachers face multiple deadlines and expectations of success. The stress can be unbearable and teachers need self care.
Stress and teaching can go hand and hand. it is important for teachers to find stress management and peace
The article, “Fighting teacher stress” by Chris Berdik looks at how teachers can fight stress and manage it. The article states,
“Teacher stress is growing, experts say, pushing educators out of classrooms and hurting learning. On top of chronic underfunding for education and the continued pressure of standardized tests, there’s also the unrelenting pace of newer education reforms.”
Pain deep within our mind and past traumas can exist within our body. Unresolved traumas can exist within us, disrupting our natural functions. Physical pain and induced poor health via stress are a result of these deep emotional pains. One must confront these pains and emotions and prevent them from blocking proper energy flow within the body.
Emotional and physical pain can be connected. Please review our EFT Certification and see if meets your professional needs.,
One excellent way to deal with past trauma pain is EFT. The Emotional Freedom Technique can help unlock past trauma and pain and allow one to find present health.
The article, “Until You Feel Your Pain, Your Pain will Never Leave You Alone” by Dr Christine Bradstreet takes a closer look at how we deal with pain. The article states,
“When your emotional body hurts, your physical body hurts. Your pain is going to make you feel it one way or another. The relationship you have with your emotional pain determines if it’s going to cause you physical pain or not.”
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There is nothing more unexpected and more traumatic than a school shooting. The lasting grief and forever scars on the survivors are unfathomable. Family, fellow students, and the community all suffer traumatically from such senseless loss.
Mass shootings are the things of nightmares and a traumatic form of loss and grief. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification
The article, “Lasting Grief After a Mass Shooting” by Ashley Fetters looks closer at this horrific pain and loss. The article states,
“Mass shootings often result in a particularly difficult kind of grief known as traumatic grief. Littleton describes traumatic grief as a PTSD reaction that occurs when someone is grieving over another person’s violent or unexpected death; in other words, traumatic grief occurs when someone has PTSD symptoms on top of grief symptoms.”
Unfortunately this type of grief is all too common for America as a collective whole. We all suffer from this loss in some way, with some more intimately connected than others.
Technology is important in healthcare but without trained professionals using it, it has no value. This is why it is so important to have good, trained and caring professionals behind all technology. Only with both, can healthcare make a difference
Chronic pain management works only as well as the care givers managing it. Please also review our healthcare case management program
This is especially true with chronic pain management. The article, “When it comes to chronic care management, tech can’t replace people” by ERIN DIETSCHE states,
“Technology has become increasingly common in the healthcare arena. The story isn’t any different in the chronic care management space, as companies like Livongo and Omada Health leverage tech to assist patients. But a new survey found humans are just as important as trendy IT tools.”
A very critical element in patient outcome and health is education. Patients need to be aware of their condition and the recovery plan. Good recovery plans and outcome management lowers readmission and also ensures the patient’s overall health and recovery.
An educated patient is more likely to be a more healthy patient. Nurse Patient Educators play a key role in the process
Nurse Patient Education is hence a very critical element in any hospital’s program. Nurse Patient Educators play a pivotal role in ensuring that patients are educated and understand the ramifications of their condition and the proper care leading to full recovery.
Nurses can become certified in this field and fill these important positions in hospitals. They can meet with patients who are being released and provide important follow up care.
Ultimately an informed patient is more likely to be a healthy patient and good education for the patient is key to that.
If you would like to learn more about Nurse Patient Educator or would like to become a certified Nurse Patient Educator then please review the program offered by AIHCP. AIHCP offers an online program for licensed nurses to gain the necessary knowledge to fulfill the duties of a Nurse Patient Educator.
Patient education can reduce readmission and increase better outcomes. Please review our Nurse Patient Educator Certification
The program is online and self paced. The certification in Nurse Patient Education is a four year certification which has the option to be renewed. Please review the program and see if it matches your academic and professional needs.
Interesting article on experiencing grief at a young age and how it affects one in adulthood.
The article, “Tragedy, magical thinking, and the lasting impact of grief” by Geraldine de Brit looks at a tragic loss of her mother and sibling in an accident and how she felt and adapted through the years.
Tragic loss and a young age can have life long implications. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification
The article states,
“Even now, 42 years later, this event still has the ability to feel unreal, like it must have been a mistake and I ask myself, “ how could it have happened? How could I not have seen them in all this time?” In such moments it can even feel like they might still come back, like I am leading an interim life until they do.”
Meditation has numerous mental, emotional and physical benefits. Meditating every day is a good idea for overall health.
Meditation everyday is a great idea for overall health. Please also review our Meditation Instructor Certification
The article, “Meditation, The Most Powerful Medicine In Existence: Top 10 Reasons To Do It Every Day” from Doctor NDTV states,
“Meditation is one of the most powerful medicine in existence. Benefits of meditation on physical and mental health are holistic and healing. Meditation is referred to training your mind to get habitual to redirecting and focusing your thoughts. This focus can be done on one single thought, on breathing deep, or listening to some spiritual or devotional mantra.”
Care coordination is key to patient outcomes. Good coordination between caregivers and care teams improves mental and physical health of patients.
Care coordination is important to overall patient outcomes. Please also review our Healthcare Case Management Certification
If you would like to learn more about care coordination and Healthcare Case Management Certification then please review the program and see if it matches your academic and professional needs.
Pets are family. The loss of a pet can be traumatizing because of this. When we start to objectively define loss for another as small or not significant, we miss the whole point of grief. Grief is a reaction to loss and the severity is connected to the level of love. A dog or cat or horse are all great companions. These type of higher intelligent companion pets have connections with the person that cannot be ignored. Lesser intelligent pets may not have the emotional connection, but as grief counselors, we need to recognize in particular cases the affect of the loss on the person.
Losing a pet is a serious loss and needs to be viewed as such. Please also review our Pet Loss Grief Counseling Program
So it is important that the loss of pets be taken far more seriously. An individual who loves his dog and lost his companion will suffer as much as a person who may have lost a brother. Just because some individuals do not love animals, does not invalidate the legitimate bond with our pets.
The article, “Why we should start recognising the loss of a pet as ‘real grief'” by Jill Stark looks at this type of loss more deeply and why it is so important to recognize. She states,
“There is often the expectation to keep feelings “in perspective” or to move on and “just get another one” – as if our pets are interchangeable non-entities we can replace like an old pair of socks.”
I feel, these terms used by many towards the grieving over pets are insensitive and dodge the real loss and pain. One can never replace a family member and because of this, one can never replace a pet.
Suicide is a very stigmatizing act. Fortunately, it is being more and more seen from a pastoral way than a condemning way. While it can contain elements of the sin of despair, modern psychology is showing more than not, it is a mental issue revolving around a deep depression. In essence, it is a sickness.
Suicide can be brought on by multiple issues. Most contend suicidal thoughts are more pathological than sinful. Please also review our Christian Counseling Certification
The article, “What does the Bible say about suicide?” by Jim Denison takes a closer and theological look at the sinful history and nature it can have but also its inherent relation to pathological state of mind. In this, Christianity is less harsh on this “unforgivable” sin as maybe in the past. This is not only good news for the deceased but also for the state of the mind of the family who endures this horrible cross. The article states,
“More people die from suicide than from homicide in America. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for those aged fifteen to twenty-four and is most common among those aged sixty-five and older. Suicide rates among the elderly are highest for those who are divorced or widowed. In the last half-century, the suicide rate among adolescents and young adults has nearly tripled.”
Hence a theological as well as a pastoral standard are needed when dealing with suicide and the family. Grief Counseling, Crisis Counseling, as well as Christian Counseling are all important disciplines in helping those facing suicide or families who have been hurt by the act itself
