Stress Reduction

Health care professionals are especially prone to high levels of stress, fatigue and burnout. According to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), health care providers who suffer from significant amounts of stress are prone to producing lower quality direct patient care, as well as a myriad of personal problems (including sleep difficulties, interpersonal/relationship turmoil, increased substance use, and suicidal ideation - particularly in medical residents). JAMA also found that a simple intervention utilizing mindfulness training sustained positive effects in each of these core areas over time.

MindBodyHealth offers in-service stress reduction training for professionals who work in direct patient care. This involves us working directly with your treatment team in your natural setting, whether you work in a hospital, clinic, or outpatient facility. Our 5 week workshop will teach you skills to:

• Reduce Stress
• Reduce Burnout
• Reduce Fatigue
• Become More Present with your Work
• Improve Quality Patient Care
• Improve Daily Life Functioning
• Improve Coping Skills
• Become Aware of Daily Factors that Compound Stress, along with Simple Daily Interventions

This important training is specific for anyone working in direct patient care. If you want to reduce job related stress, call us NOW to set up a FREE initial session.

MindBodyHealth implores you to keep well!

1115 Grant Street, Suite 103
Denver, CO 80203
www.mindbodyhealth.us

mail@mindbodyhealth.us

Mindfulness For Health Providers

MindBodyHealth recently held a free 2-hour mindfulness seminar for health care professionals, based on a September 2009 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) posting research findings that mindfulness training reduces burnout, fatigue, and stress for these providers. (Article Link). Building on this seminar, we are offering a 5-week mindfulness course for health care professionals, beginning Monday December 14 from 6 - 730 PM. The course will follow a similar pattern to the JAMA article research design, and is of importance to health care providers for the following reasons:

• 60% of health care providers experience burnout, fatigue, or significant stress.
• Burnout is linked to poorer quality patient care, increased patient dissatisfaction, and increased errors in diagnostic and decision making. Burnout is also correlated with substance abuse, family discord, automobile accidents, stress related health problems, and suicidal ideation in physicians (particularly with medical residents).
• Health care professionals often struggle with daily self-care management of stress.
• Mindfulness training has been demonstrated to decrease fatigue, stress and burnout in health care professionals while at the same time increasing overall mood stability, and ability to monitor and cope with stress.
• Increased mindfulness skills and decreased levels of stress led to increased patient directed care, and lower levels of reported patient dissatisfaction.

Space for this group course is limited and filling up quickly. Reserve your space today by calling (303) 831.6248 or emailing (mail@mindbodyhealth.us).

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Denver, CO 80203
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Free Mindfulness Seminar

The September 2009 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) presented a research article regarding the increasing problem of physician burnout. Of particular concern are the consequences of physician burnout: poorer quality of life, poorer quality of services, and lowered ability of 'being present' with their patients. Implementing mindfulness training was found to have significant positive effects at increasing mindfulness skills, empathy, and emotional stability while reducing burnout and total mood disturbance. Physicians were thus better able to attend to their patients and engage in a more productive manner. Health care providers need to find a way to reduce job burnout in order to provide quality patient care. To this end, MindBodyHealth is offering a FREE 2-Hour Mindfulness Seminar for all those working in a health care related field in which they have direct contact with patients (physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, PA's, dietitians, chiropractors, dentists, social workers, massage therapists etc). This class will include a mindfulness tutorial and experiential mindfulness exercises of Body Scan, Sitting Meditation, and Walking Meditation, that reflect skills taught in the JAMA research article. These skills are crucially important to helping YOU reduce burnout and improve quality direct patient care. DETAILS *FREE Mindfulness Seminar *Saturday December 5th *10AM - 12Noon *Healthcare Providers with Direct Patient Care *MindBodyHealth Offices: 1115 Grant Street, Conference Room *RSVP Today! (Space is limited) Article Link (JAMA, September 23/30, 2009-Vol 302, No. 12)