Mitigating PTSD

Our ICUs are full, patient ratios are different, and mortality is high—we’re facing the unknown. Here’s what the literature says you can do right now, in the middle of this pandemic, to help mitigate PTSD for yourself and your team.

Highlights PTSD as a growing international concern in the nursing profession and discusses contributing factors associated with PTSD symptom development. 

In this closing plenary from Creating Healthy Work Environments 2021, Dr. Tedeschi discusses the theoretical model of posttraumatic growth, some of the research that supports it, and how to apply this concept to clinical work. This approach to practice incorporates a broad view of what constitutes trauma, including many experiences that are traumatic to people because they challenge core beliefs about oneself, other people, the future, and the kind of world in which we live. The possibilities for transformation of individuals and their relationships does not preclude working on typical symptoms of trauma, but recognizes that symptoms are better understood, tolerated, and reduced when traumatic suffering can have meaning and purpose.

Discusses research related to the Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing article "Prevalence and Correlates of Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Healthy Beliefs, and Lifestyle Behaviors in First‐Year Graduate Health Sciences Students."

Discusses research related to the Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing article, "The MINDBODYSTRONG Intervention for New Nurse Residents: 6-Month Effects on Mental Health Outcomes, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors, and Job Satisfaction.”