How to Run an Equine Facilitated Program For Nurses
What you'll learn
- A dive into the nursing profession to help you understand the challenges nurses face.
- 7 tools nurses really need to know, and can start using their next shift.
- Full workshop template and lesson plans.
- Everything you need to know to develop your own customized program to support nurses.
Requirements
- Experience or training in providing equine-facilitated learning or wellness.
- A sincere interest in working with nurses.
Description
Nurses worldwide are experiencing underappreciation, poor job satisfaction, anger, burnout, poor work-life balance, physical and mental exhaustion, violence, and poor self-care. A 2020 Canadian study (pre Covid-19) showed:
63.2 % of nurses experience symptoms of burnout
33 % have contemplated suicide
23 % screened positive for PTSD
Nurses need to develop skills to manage these unique stressors. You and your horses can help nurses develop self-compassion, inspiration, connection, and support
Learn how to run a one-day equine-facilitated professional development program to support nurses. In this course, you will dive into the nursing profession and learn what nurses do, and how what they do impacts them. It's a lot more than bedpans and giving pills!
You will learn 7 practical tools nurses can start using their very next shift, all through the help of your horses.
Course content includes detailed interactive exercises with horses, reflective questions, a complete course syllabus, and detailed exercises. You can use it as is or adapt it to your current program. Topics covered include present-moment awareness, care and connection, and boundaries.
Easily integrate this educational experience into your existing program, no matter your EFL training. This is a great program for those just starting in equine-facilitated learning.
Just as horses are worldwide, so are nurses. Nurses are an impressive group to work with. Nurses are traditionally under-supported in the Equine Facilitated Learning/ Wellness/Therapy world. We need to change this!
This course also works well with those in the helping professions such as occupational therapists, social workers, physiotherapists, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, and anyone else in the helping professions.
Please note this is not a "Certification" course in equine facilitated learning.
Who this course is for:
- Equine facilitated learning professionals who are interested in developing a program to support nurses.
- This program could also be easily transferred to others in the helping professions as teachers and social workers.
- Anyone interested in working with nurses.
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 12 Reviews
- 262 Students
- 2 Courses
Registered Nurse BA, BN, RN - Nova Scotia, Canada.
Since 2014, Jennifer has offered equine-facilitated in-person workshops for Nurses and other healthcare providers across Canada, addressing compassion fatigue, burnout, building resiliency, and self-care.
Jennifer has been nursing for over twenty years, with most of her career in critical care ( ER & ICU). She currently works in the Post-Anesthetic Care Unit. She has a special interest in health promotion, specifically shift work, healthy boundaries, and self-care.
She lives with her husband, miniature curly horses, her dog Red as well as her Gypsy Vanner Tinker and quarter horse Annie in the beautiful Annapolis Valley.