BCEHS - Resilience Education Training (2017)

This is a PAID training - 7 hours

This 1-day provider resilience course is designed in response to the Opioid crisis in the Lower Mainland. This course will help paramedics/ dispatchers understand how working with addiction in highly acute situations impacts their personal stress and could impact in their professional practice. It will also address mental health self-assessment, actions for building personal resilience, using resilience tools and strategies for improved performance in the field, and customized strategies when coping with the stresses of working with the acutely ill addicted pre-contemplative population.

Course Objectives:

1. To provide insight into resilience enhancing strategies on a unique high volume, high stress paramedic situation.
2. To help them understand the evolution of compassion fatigue and how to build resilience.
3. To provide coping strategies and techniques in dealing with stressful situations.

EMALB has assigned 7 CME credits to course.

Paid training wage: 7 hours

Instructor: Dr. Mark Davies

Lunch & refreshments will be provided.

Resource page available here: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/22146/bcehs-resilience-education-training-2017-resources