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Gail Sims

MSN, RN, CRRN

Gail Sims serves as a Patient Care Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente in Roseville, CA. She served as the Director of Nursing at Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, CA for 8 years. She has also been a nurse surveyor for the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for the past 11 years. During the past thirty-nine years, nursing leadership and clinical management have been the main focus of her professional practice. She has been an Infection Control Nurse in long term and acute care settings on two separate occasions and served as adjunct faculty at two universities in their BSN programs. She has also served on the national board for the professional specialty organization of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and has advocated for health care reform in Washington DC with the ARN Board on three annual Hill visits. She has presented rehabilitation nursing topics at ARN national conferences and annual symposiums throughout her career. She has contributed to three rehabilitation nursing textbooks as well as two professional nursing journals.

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Optimizing Coping and Stress Management Skills for Patients and Caregivers

Presented by Gail Sims, MSN, RN, CRRN

Optimizing Coping and Stress Management Skills for Patients and Caregivers

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Video Runtime: 49 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 46 Minutes

This course is part of our CRRN(R) Prep-Program. Learn more about the full prep-program here: MedBridge CRRN(R) Prep-Program.

Effective coping strategies and stress management are essential survival skills for patients and their caregivers. The rehabilitation nurse must assess each individual's ability to cope with catastrophic changes, access resources to facilitate effective coping strategies, and evaluate the impact of accessing resources. The pathophysiology of the stress response, strategies theories of coping, adjustment and self-management, and stages of grief and loss will be reviewed. Strategies for stress reduction and positive coping in rehabilitation situations will be evaluated using the nursing process.

CRRN(R) is a registered trademark of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses.

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Providing Compassionate Care in Rehabilitation Nursing

Presented by Gail Sims, MSN, RN, CRRN

Providing Compassionate Care in Rehabilitation Nursing

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, during the next several decades, the population of the United States that is older than 65 years is predicted to grow from 46 million to a projected 98 million by 2060. As a result, we are now caring for more medically complex, ethnically diverse patients in a fee-for-service environment. Compassionate care is at the very heart of high-quality, person-centered care. The increasing need for compassion as well as competence is evident as the literature reveals a strong correlation between empathy and patient outcomes, and well-being and disease management, as well as overall satisfaction. Compassionate care and empathy are important catalysts for healing, which involves recognition, understanding, emotional resonance and empathetic concern for another person's distress, pain and suffering. During this presentation, the concepts of compassionate connection and methods of communicating with compassion will be shared with examples to promote increased awareness and delivery of compassionate care in the rehabilitation setting. Compassionate care can only be provided after first knowing and appreciating cultural and spiritual differences among patients.

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Effective Patient, Family & Caregiver Education in Rehabilitation

Presented by Gail Sims, MSN, RN, CRRN

Effective Patient, Family & Caregiver Education in Rehabilitation

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Video Runtime: 55 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 44 Minutes

Poor communication costs the U.S. healthcare systems $1.7 billion in malpractice costs and nearly 2,000 lives, according to CRIOC Strategies 2015 CBS Report on Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures. Critical information gets lost between providers and those who need it, across all health care systems and settings. Mismanagement of crucial information has a negative impact across the continuum of care. The intent of this course is to provide an in-depth exploration of problems and challenges in the delivery of effective patient, family, and caregiver education in the rehabilitation setting. The learner will review strategies and concepts of effective teaching/learning and explore techniques to promote high-quality educational experiences in rehabilitation.

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Assessment of Spiritual Needs in Rehabilitation Nursing

Presented by Gail Sims, MSN, RN, CRRN

Assessment of Spiritual Needs in Rehabilitation Nursing

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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) mandates nurse educators to teach students to assess, screen and address spiritual needs of patients. Spiritual assessment tools have been created to prompt nurses to ask questions relative to this important aspect of care, but how do we actually translate these instruments into clinical practice in the rehabilitation setting? What clues guide nurses toward discovering the deeper meaning or purpose, existence and connection to others known as sacred space? This course will reveal strategies for the integration of spirituality into patient care. As part of an interdisciplinary team approach, the rehabilitation nurse will gain practical methods for active listening, appropriate referral, documentation of spiritual care, and offering support in a culturally sensitive manner in order to improve patient outcomes and the entire care experience.

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