Replenish the Well: Self Renewal for Public Health Workers

Speaker:
Robert Veninga, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, and author of The Work/Stress Connection: How To Cope With Job Burnout.

Program Description:
The focus of this presentation is on how to skillfully and creatively manage occupational stress. Employees will learn practical strategies for avoiding burnout. Managers will be given strategies for building high morale in an era of rapid change.

Objectives:
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

• describe at least two strategies for avoiding burnout in myself or the people I supervise.

Satellite broadcast originally aired October 16, 2004.

School of Public Health, University at Albany, is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity has been assigned code 6VKSFE-PRV-06-074a and has been approved for 1.0 contact hour.

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.