Nurses in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Work and Home Strategies to Reduce Your Stress, Fear and Frustration

Sara Lefkowitz, who is a nursing professor and expert on stress management for nurses, shares her insights on the intense feelings of compassion fatigue that so many nurses are experiencing today. Nurses can be highly critical of their own performance, when things don’t seem perfect.In this experiential video seminar, Lefkowitz teaches easy-to-learn and effective self-soothing techniques to calm the mind, soothe the body, and process difficult emotions. She shows how to utilize mindfulness meditation, compassion, and communication to help work with stress. She addresses specific stressors in the COVID pandemic; discusses ways to stay emotionally and physically healthy through proper nutrition, exercise, and adequate sleep; and considers ways to transition to home by leaving work at work and being present for one's self and one's family.