Change Happens! Moving Through Challenges With Confidence

Series: Stress Recess

Description: Whether we like it or not, change happens.  Drawing from her many years of experience in counseling adults during transition, Lenore shares techniques that will help you navigate the changes in your life and prepare you to support others through times of change. Discover the three stages of transition to better understand the process of change and how it affects feelings and behaviors.  Learn healthy strategies to use during each phase of transition to provide support and strengthen confidence.

Presenter: Lenore Woodley, RN, MSN, CEAP

Length: One hour

Contact Hours Awarded: 1.0

Successful Completion: Your continuing education certificate will be available to print after you view the entire presentation and complete the online evaluation form.

Program Goals: The goal of this educational activity is to provide nurses with an understanding of the transition stages involved in both planned and unplanned change and to identify techniques that help support individuals who are experiencing life change.

Program Objectives:
1. Learner will be able to identify physical and psychosocial life changes that involve transition.
2. Learner will be able to describe the transition process during planned as well as unplanned change.
3. Learner will be able to list techniques that are supportive during major personal changes.

Accreditation Info: This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Conflict of Interest: None

Approval Period: 3/1/10 - 3/1/12