1-Day Mind Body Nursing CME – April 5th
CME
1-Day Mind Body Nursing CME – April 5th
The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (BHI) is pleased to invite nurses and healthcare clinicians to its upcoming continuing medical education program, The Science of Stress and Resiliency: Integrating Mind-Brain-Body Interactions into your Nursing Practice.
The program is offered under the auspices of the Norman Knight Nursing Center for Clinical & Professional Development at Massachusetts General Hospital and will be held Friday, April 5th from 8 AM to 4:30 PM at Partners Healthcare at Assembly Row, Somerville.
Daily exposure to stress and shift work are two common features of nursing practice that, if left unchecked, compromise health and increase vulnerability to provider burnout.
Through advances in technology and bioscience, greater understanding of the body’s regulatory systems is now understood to involve mind-brain-body interactions and circadian rhythms that are modified by lifestyle behaviors. Learning how to modify behavior in support of these key regulatory systems increases health and resiliency. Conversely, lack of knowledge and failure to adhere to these behaviors disrupts key regulatory pathways, resulting in greater vulnerability to specific diseases and symptomatology.
This course an excellent opportunity for nurses to learn how both stress and circadian systems affect the brain and body and to develop self-care skills they can teach patients and utilize themselves. Participants will hear the latest research into the science of stress and how it affects the body at the genomic level, understand how lifestyle behaviors and the timing of these behaviors can positively impact health outcomes and build resiliency, build skills in meditation, stand cognitive reappraisal and take part in mind body practices like yoga.
Speakers include BHI’s Clinical Director of Training, Peg Baim, MS, ANP; BHI’s Director of Research, John W. Denninger, MD, PhD; Laura Malloy, LICSW, RYT, Director of Yoga Programs at BHI; Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP, Co-Director of the BHI Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program; and Boston-area nursing leaders Patricia Martin Arcari, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Program Manager for Meditation and Mindfulness at the Zakim Center at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Joanne Rowley, RN, MS, HNB-BC, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Holistic Nurse at MGH Revere.
Participation in the course can be applied toward the BHI’s Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Certification for Healthcare Practitioners program. https://bensonhenryinstitute.org/
For more information or to register, visit http://ow.ly/jUvf30nKNO0 or email jmeek@partners.org.
The Norman Knight Nursing Center for Clinical & Professional Development at Massachusetts General Hospital is an approved provider by the Ohio Nurses Association an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91). The Knight Center has approved 7.5 contact hours.
Criteria for successful completion include: electronic check-in or paper sign-in at the beginning of the program, attendance at the entire event and submission of a completed evaluation.
There is no conflict of interest for anyone in a position to control the content of this activity.
BHI Hosts Annual Mind Body CME October 19-21, 2017
BHI will host its annual conference at Harvard Medical School October 19-21, 2017. This year’s course, “Mind Body Medicine: Guiding Patients to Health and Happiness,” will provide hundreds of clinicians and mind body practitioners from across the globe an opportunity to explore cutting-edge research, share best practices and discover new strategies for treating patients. The 2 ½ day Continuing Medical Education (CME) course will be held at the Joseph Martin Conference Center in Boston.
The conference will feature a joint presentation by BHI founder Dr. Herbert Benson (author of “The Relaxation Response,” a groundbreaking work of mind body medical literature) and Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, whose pioneering work in the field led him to coin the phrase “mindfulness” and found the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester. BHI Director Dr. Gregory Fricchione will present “Evolutionary Mind Body Medicine: Implications for Health and Well-Being.”
Keynote speakers Amy Cuddy, PhD and Robert Waldinger, MD are Harvard professors and TEDtalk phenoms who between them have more than 50 million views. Dr. Cuddy’s 2015 book “Presence: Bringing your Boldest Self to your Biggest Challenges,” explores how harnessing inner strength can help propel individuals to greater success. A professor of psychology at Harvard, Dr. Cuddy is perhaps best known for her TEDtalk about “the power pose,” which discusses how one’s carriage can influence interpersonal relationships. Dr. Waldinger directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest longitudinal studies of adult life ever done. Dr. Waldinger’s research focuses on the lifetime predictors of healthy adult development, studying two groups of men recruited as teenagers from Harvard College and from Boston inner city neighborhoods, and who have been part of the Study for 76 years.
The BHI is proud to feature members of the Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 9/11 (H.E.A.R.T. (9/11). The team of New York-area police, fire, emergency medical and building trades personnel responded in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack; their shared experiences bonded the members and propelled them to share their strategies for responding to crises with other first responders around the country. HEART 9/11’s mission is to respond to natural and man-made disasters, help those affected to rebuild and recover by teaching resiliency skills to individuals and families.
Registration for the course will be conducted through Harvard Medical School. For more information or to register, please click here.
This offering meets the criteria for 22.25 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for physicians. The institute is applying for Continuing Education (CE) credit(s) for nurses and psychologists, and for credit hours for social workers and counselors.
*Note to New York state social workers: BHI has applied to become an approved CME provider. Please check back for more information.
