Title: Compassion Fatigue and Satisfaction: Remaining Resilient Amidst Today’s Healthcare Challenges

Speaker: Kelly Duszak McArdle, PT, DPT, OCS, Cert. MDT, RYT

Course Description: Compassion Fatigue is a consequence of caring for and helping others that is present in Healthcare professionals across many disciplines including Physical Therapists. It has become more prevalent in recent years with healthcare delivery, practice and insurance changes. In the past year with the COVID-19 Pandemic, CF may have become more common in the medical community causing those who work in healthcare to lose their Compassion Satisfaction (CS) or consider professional or job changes. This continuing education presentation will provide an in depth overview of risk factors or CF, related terms, effects on providers and how it is regulated. Attendees will be able to identify the stages of CF as well as become familiar with “antibodies” or strategies to address CF and find resiliency in their work and profession.

Approved for 1 General Contact Hour