Effective Mental Health Self-Care Tools during the Pandemic

We offer six “Quick Videos” featuring Mental Health Self-Care Tools as well as two free, complete full webinars. You must register to watch the complete webinars, or you may click on any of the Quick Videos below to watch them.  In these Quick Videos, you will learn of resources available to help nurses deal with mental health challenges and the stress from COVID-19, including self-compassion techniques, building resiliency, mindfulness meditation and suicide prevention.

Full Webinar:

Click on the image below to go to the registration site and scan down the Series list to find the webinar title.  Select as many webinars in the series as you wish.

Mental Health Support:  How to Survive the Pandemic with an Unbroken Spirit

Effective Tools for Practicing Self-Compassion and Self Care in the Time of COVID-19

Quick Videos:

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WEBINAR SPEAKERS: Mental Health Support – How to survive the Pandemic with an Unbroken Spirit

Sattaria 'Tari' Dilks, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP

President, American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Dr. Dilks is a professor of nursing at McNeese State University and co-coordinator of McNeese’s Master of Science in Nursing programs. She is an elected fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN

Dr. Melnyk is the Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University (OSU), Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at OSU’s College of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice.  Dr. Melnyk is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Judy E. Davidson DNP RN MCCM FAAN

Dr. Davidson is a Nurse Scientist at the University of California San Diego Health; Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine; Doctor of Nursing Practice, Case Western Reserve

WEBINAR SPEAKERS: Effective Mental Health Self-Care Tools during the Pandemic

Kathleen Spadaro, PhD, PMHCNS, RN

Dr. Spadaro is a practicing Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and Professor of Nursing at Chatham University. She has a 40+ year career in nursing and psychiatry, working for 10 years at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and 20+ years as a psychotherapist in private practice. Dr. Spadaro is an extensively published author, speaker, educator and researcher in mindfulness, resiliency, fitness and nutrition.

Moderator (both Webinars):

Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN

Holly is a Senior Policy Advisor, Nursing Practice & Work Environment Department, American Nurses Association.  She was instrumental in developing and growing the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) nurse wellness initiative. Her responsibilities include nurse mental health, suicide prevention, improving public immunization rates, and addressing other occupational health topics for nurses.

Made possible by the generosity of the American Nurses Foundation.