InnovatorMD MasterClass - Burning Up While Burning Out: Stress Reduction, Compassion Fatigue Awareness, Burnout Prevent

Healthcare professionals, regardless of specialty and work setting, are under more stress than ever evidenced

by increases in demand for quality services that are more efficient and extremely thorough, higher costs,

reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many healthcare workers are putting in longer hours for less

pay. From working extra twenty-four shifts to simply burning the midnight oil catching up on paperwork, the

healthcare industry puts a great deal of stress and fatigue on the average worker and their relationships,

including family. Healthcare professionals bear witness to human suffering on a routine basis and are

constantly reminded that tragedy, pain, and challenge often loom large in the midst of helping patients heal.

The Global Coronavirus Pandemic adds a new dimension of chaos and stress on healthcare systems and their

workers. As a result, stress, compassion fatigue and burnout have quickly become the major hazard of a

profession whose basis was founded on the Hippocratic oath and the conduit of delivering continuity and

compassion to patients.

Purpose: This program is designed to teach industry leaders and front-line healthcare workers to become

aware of compassion fatigue and burnout risks in the workplace, while learning how to manage symptoms,

and prevent fatigue and burnout through applied cognitive, behavioral, and emotional interventions. 

Training Content: The training includes an introduction, definition and exploration of terminology, a review

of the causes of compassion fatigue and burnout, symptom identification, research and original theory,

individual and group intervention/prevention strategies, and a summary/conclusion. 

The training includes a step wise individualized written “Burnout Prevention/Burn-up Invention Plan” that

participants will work on throughout the program and finish up on their own after the training. 

Class Outline/Agenda:  

• Introduction & Training Objectives
• Understanding Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
• Causes & Symptoms of Stress
• Brief Review of Research on Burnout & CF
• Theory of Compassion Integration & Resilience
• Intervention & Prevention Strategies
• Summary & Conclusion
• Q & A

This course will help the busy, over-stressed healthcare worker (even the normal stress worker) learn

valuable concepts, research, strategies, and solutions for changing their relationship to stress and thereby

improving compassion, managing fatigue, and preventing burnout, and all in the interest of creating improved

work/life balance and growing a connection to meaning and joy within work.

Instructor: Howard Baumgarten is a Licensed Professional Counselor, author, consultant, public speaker, and owner of a mental health private practice in Lakewood, Colorado. He has lectured internationally about mental health, business, and wellness across multiple fields. Howard routinely consults and trains healthcare industry professionals on a variety of psychology & health related topics including workplace stress, compassion fatigue awareness, and burnout prevention.