This course meets NHBN requirements for Continuing Competence.

How can nurses become more empowered and use power wisely? What obstacles do nurses face and how can they navigate them?

Nurses are the largest workforce in healthcare. Empowering nurses may be one of the most important steps that individuals and healthcare organizations can take toward improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems.

In this interactive and experiential workshop with Judy Ringer and Beth Boynton, RN, MS, you will discuss these questions and explore strategies for developing positive expressions of power.

Participants will practice centering, listening, the art of perspective-taking, and expressing themselves. We’ll draw on words, movement, and attitude to stop fighting, freezing, and avoiding, and utilize the stuck energy of emotion to advocate, inquire, and manage the stress of day-to-day interactions with patients, physicians, and staff.

Objectives:

• Develop concrete skills to promote healthy expressions of power in nurse practice settings.
• Create opportunity for facilitated dialogue about workplace dynamics in healthcare.
• Increase knowledge about helpful vs. unhelpful ways nurses influence the management, administration and delivery of healthcare.
• Increase ability to manage daily stress and critical conversations involved in providing high quality nursing care.

Join Judy and Beth in May. Accept your power and support others in finding theirs.

Lunch included

Group discounts available

Instructors:

Judy Ringer provides conflict and communication skills training throughout the U.S. and Canada with unique workshops based on mind/body principles from the martial art aikido, in which she holds a black belt. The author of Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict and Managing Conflict in the Workplace: An Aiki Approach, she uses her expertise in several best practice communication models to bring to life key concepts such as self-management under pressure and appreciation of other viewpoints. Judy is founder and chief instructor of Portsmouth Aikido and sole owner of Power & Presence Training, in Portsmouth, NH.

Beth Boynton, Beth Boynton, RN, MS
Beth is an organizational development consultant specializing in issues that impact nurses. She is a coach, facilitator, & trainer for topics related to communication, conflict management, team and leadership development. She is an adjunct faculty member with New England College’s graduate program in Healthcare Administration. Her column, Confident Voices, a Q and A format for addressing communication, conflict and workplace dynamics will debut in the Spring '08 issue of ANA-Maine Journal. She is currently writing a book which focuses on the same material.

Directions to the site, as well as other logistical information, will be mailed upon registration.