
Our lives and nursing careers have been anything but ordinary since the COVID-19 pandemic started. Drastically changing lifestyles provides an opportunity and in some cases a necessity to rethink your mental wellbeing strategies and add some self-care activities to your toolbox.
Please join thought leaders for a free month-long symposium in May to thank our healthcare workers.
Hosted by Quint Studer
Forty-five well-known experts are banding together to provide healthcare workers and students with a month-long series of presentations meant to thank, teach, and inspire those in healthcare. Each expert created a video from 15 to 50 minutes based on their area of expertise. This content will be available through the Gratitude Symposium website. Each weekday, one to three videos will be released on the website.
What Will Be Covered?
The Gratitude Symposium experts and partners have created a solid foundation of learnings and will deliver diverse content. You will leave feeling better than when you came in as well as well as additional tools and techniques to utilize in your job. The array of experts will cover topics including employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, creating high-performance organizations, and emotional intelligence.
View a List of Experts
Who Should Attend?
This symposium is for anyone who works in healthcare or plans to work in healthcare. Attend as an individual, team, organization or class. To make it easy to register your entire workforce or student body, please contact Nicole Webb Bodie at Nicole@QuintStuder.com or 850-748-2027.
Register Now
Download one or more of the following images to help you find a relaxing moment as you work through your day. Some ideas on how to utilize these posters are to hang in a central place on your unit, use them as a screensaver for your computer, or as a digital background for virtual meetings. We have included a post-it size (3x3) option if you would like to add it after your email signature or print and affix to a notebook or next to your computer screen.
Get the: Screensaver image; Zoom Background; 11"x17" poster; 8.5"x11" poster; 3"x3" note
Get the: Screensaver image; Zoom Background; 11"x17" poster; 8.5"x11" poster; 3"x3" note
Get the: Screensaver image; Zoom Background; 11"x17" poster; 8.5"x11" poster; 3"x3" note
Get the: Screensaver image; Zoom Background; 11"x17" poster; 8.5"x11" poster; 3"x3" note
Take some time to assess your own well-being and identify those areas in your life that you would like to mend or prioritize activities that you already know bring you joy and promote healing. If you are not quite sure what those areas are, try a variety of these methods to see what works best for you. Use the list below to help you with ideas.
Self-Care Activity |
Learn how to practice by reading this article |
Practice storytelling |
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Get organized |
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Listen to music |
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Journal |
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Share a smile |
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Sleep |
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Plan a vacation |
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Stretch |
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Get creative |
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Recognize your humanness |
Take These Healthy Steps to Come Back From an Unexpected Event |
Set boundaries |
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Prioritize your time |
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Take care of your feet |
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Laugh |
Other self-care ideas:
Yoga |
Meditation |
Read/write poetry |
Share a laugh |
Watch a funny video |
Guided imagery |
Positive affirmations |
Breathing exercises |
Storytelling |
Journaling |
Exercise |
Tai Chi |
Make a social connection |
Intuitive eating |
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Look at pictures of places that bring you joy |
Write down 3 things that you are grateful for |
Talk to a loved one |
Practice mindfulness |
Unit-based Approaches for Staff Well-Being:
Recognize a coworker |
Unit pause after a difficult event |
Dose of resilience |
Make vision boards |
Random acts of kindness |
Themed lunches |
Staff birthday calendar |
Neck/shoulder massages |
Team time with the Chaplain |
Welcome bags for new grads |
Bulletin boards with positive messages |
Share kudos at staff meetings |
Self-care champions |
Start and end day with a team huddle |
Gratitude tree |
Take one and leave one – positive message sticky notes |
Mindfulness corner |
Book club |
Tea for the soul |
Team building |
Institutional Approaches for Staff Well-Being
ONS Podcasts (includes free NCPD)
ONS Congress Sessions
ONS Voice articles:
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:
ONS Voice articles
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
American Organization for Nursing Leadership
American Nurses Association
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Emotional PPE Project
Thank you to Eisai for their sponsorship of the ONS Self-Care Learning Library.