Beating Burnout in Midwifery Conference (Dec 10 - 11, 2018)

Beating Burnout in Midwifery Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 10 - 11, 2018 at Mercure Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The target audience for this medical event is all midwives. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours.

Conference Overview:
Are you feeling overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted? Are you struggling to gain the satisfaction you once received from practicing as a midwife? You are not alone if you are experiencing feelings of stress, burnout, and even compassion fatigue. This special conference is designed to explore the causes and conditions that can lead to burnout in midwives and offers strategies and techniques to reduce burnout. Topics include:
• How to counteract the impact of cumulative stress and vicarious trauma
• Managing birthing expectations
• The role that power, control, and politics play in midwifery
• Managing the perception of medicolegal risk
• How compassion for self and others can enhance the therapeutic relationship and decrease burnout
• Tips for building psychological safety in your team and much

Need for Program:
High levels of emotional exhaustion, a decreasing sense of achievement, and subsequent depersonalization are sadly affecting many health professionals. Midwives are reporting feelings of stress, burnout, and even compassion fatigue. Professional costs include decreased staff morale, increased sick leave, with lower levels of satisfaction among midwives and those in their care. In order to address the current impact of burnout in midwifery, there is a need for an educational program to unpack the causes and offer strategies to develop the resilience required to prevent these insidious professional threats from occurring.

Purpose of Program:
To provide midwives with knowledge and skills to reduce stress and burnout, and to increase personal wellness, job satisfaction, and psychological safety in the workplace, ultimately enhancing women and family-centered approaches to maternity care.

Learning Objectives:
• Gain further insight into the factors that cause cumulative stress amongst midwives, which will assist with early recognition and prevention of burnout
• Be able to apply a trauma-informed approach to maternity care
• Improve the therapeutic relationship with the woman, her partner, and the newborn baby, resulting in a reduction in compassion fatigue
• Have a toolbox of practical strategies to assist you to gain greater satisfaction from work and the ability to leave it behind when you go home

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.