Soul Shock: The Mental Health Crisis in Healthcare Professionals

Soul Shock: The Mental Health Crisis in Healthcare Professionals explores moral injury, burnout, depression, and other mental health crises faced by healthcare professionals, including techniques to cope and improve mental health. Presented in a concise PDF format, this valuable resource contains clinically relevant articles that present state-of-the-art techniques to help readers understand burnout, address healthcare provider mental health needs, support professionals facing workplace violence, and navigate the future of healthcare.

Soul Shock topics include:

1. Burnout: Review the scope, causes, effects, and symptoms of burnout — as well as tactics to combat it.
2. Moral injury: Moral injury — the feeling that someone has violated their values, ethical code, or sworn duty — skyrocketed during the pandemic. From staffing problems to a lack of PPE, learn the causes and effects of moral injury.
3. Workplace violence: The stress of the pandemic has led to a heightening of tensions among staff and patients alike, which has contributed to an uptick in violence in healthcare settings. Read what the most recent research has said about setting expectations and offering better support to healthcare professionals.
4. Worker well-being: Review straightforward solutions to mitigate the harmful effects of stress to reduce the risk of developing depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other mental health problems.

Benefits:

• Concise, targeted articles that provide clinically relevant recommendations for improving the mental health of healthcare professionals
  
• Easy modular format for physicians and nurses to earn mental health-specific continuing education credits
• Valuable recommendations to ensure healthcare worker safety and well-being
• Promotes best practices to improve care for healthcare workers and their colleagues

Features:

• Online modules covering stress prevention, management, and treatment, as well as detailed reviews of the latest research in healthcare worker mental health. Each module provides separate CME/CE credits for a total of 10 hours
• Comprehensive resource that discusses tested strategies for supporting healthcare workers
• Includes valuable tables and charts to support the information
• Provides analysis and commentary on the latest published healthcare worker-centered mental health research

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Learning Objectives

• Identify the causes and contributing factors to the recent, marked increase in practitioner stress and burnout; and
• Identify effective strategies in improving the mental health and coping skills of affected healthcare professionals.

Faculty

Physician Editor:
Gregory R. Wise, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Oscar Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University; Sole Shareholder, Kettering Physicians Network, Dayton, OH

Nurse Planners:
Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Consultant/Educator, Adjunct Professor, Nursing, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH

Toni G. Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN
Partner and Consultant, Case Management Concepts, LLC, North Bellmore, NY

Nicole Huff, MBA, MSN, RN, CEN
Director, Emergency and Trauma Services, Gunnison Valley Health, Gunnison, CO

Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, FAPIC
Director: Infection Prevention/ISO Internal Audit, Methodist Hospital for Surgery, Addison, TX

Jeanine Mikek, MSN, RN, CEN
Maternal Child Health Educator, Labor & Delivery, Mother Baby, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit & Pediatrics, IU Arnett Hospital, Lafayette, IN

Susan Solverson, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Grafton, WI

Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

10 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.

How to Earn Credits:

Physicians and nurses participate in this online CME/CE activity by reading the articles, using the provided references for further research, and studying the relevant questions at the end of the book. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they’ve learned. They must score 80 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they can download their credit letter.

Target Audience:

Physicians particularly in emergency medicine, infectious disease, hospitalists, critical care and primary care; bedside nurses, mental health professionals.

Expiration: May 31, 2026

ISBN: 978-1-941481-70-7