2020, the pronounced “Year of the Nurse” was indeed a year for nurses and all healthcare workers, but also a year of incredible stories. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all experienced a blending of fear, suffering, and uncertainty, as well as tremendous outpouring of compassion and ingenuity as we’ve worked to recognized gaps in healthcare and initiate change.
In this very special webinar, Tim Cunningham, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN, Vice President of Practice and Innovation at Emory Healthcare, assistant professor, emergency nurse, actor, and clown, shares stories told by patients and nurses living through pandemics and other healthcare crises, while demonstrating the healing power of strong storytelling
If you’re nurse leader, you’ll learn how to empower and engage your teams through storytelling. Join us for this webinar for insights on:
- Constructing compelling stories, even when they are incomplete at first
- Knowing that all stories require a beginning, a middle, and an end for best impact
- Basic understanding of the neuroscience of connectivity
- The risks of empathy fatigue, burnout, and a loss of a sense of meaning when we only experience part of a story
- Discovering ways nurse leaders can help teams create and complete stories by practicing self-care, empathetic resonance, and compassionate resonance
- Understanding how stories can act as a salve to move us forward during challenging times while allowing us to capture and embrace the history that’s being made every day as nurses.
Tim serves as Vice President of Practice and Innovation at Emory Healthcare where he works with colleagues to build resilience, compassion, and professionalism in nursing. Tim has also worked as an assistant professor, an emergency/trauma nurse, a clinician, an actor, and a clown throughout the U.S. and internationally. His work as a nurse in Sierra Leone, during the Ebola outbreak and experiences as a clown brought him to one central question: what keeps a person resilient? This question drove the completion of his Doctorate of Public Health and began his journey exploring the benefits of Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that brings the narrative skills of radical listening and creativity to those seeking and delivering healthcare.
Co-author of the newly-published book, Self-Care for New and Student Nurses, Tim serves as the director of the Compassionate Care Initiative where he works with an inspiring team who strives to foster resilience and compassion in all settings — personal, academic and clinical.
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