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2023-22:  Impact of an Educational Program on Burnout among Nurses Working with Intellectually Disabled Persons

The results of the project will be useful in determining strategies for improving the nurse practice setting and to facilitate the use of self-care education by nurses to reduce burnout with consequent turnover. Suggested changes should encourage the reading of research, discussion of research, risk taking to implement new ideas, and mentoring.

Presenter:  Dr. Jemima Kodua, RN, BSN, MSN, DNP, CM/DN

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  31 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Describe how self-care education on burnout reduction among nurses is likely to decrease incidents of burnout among nurses working within developmental disability home health facilities.

Keywords:  Burnout, Self-care, Developmental Disability, Stress

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 36th Annual Conference
Long Beach, CA

The contact hours for this session expire:  October 1, 2025

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