Responding to Noncompliance and Preventing Personal Burnout

Understand factors that interfere with patient compliance and learn effective responses. Deepen your understanding of why nonadherence occurs. Learn ways to maximize patient motivation and adherence. Reduce feelings of guilt, failure, or burnout.

This pre-conference instructional seminar emphasizes hands-on practice of specific skills to increase patient adherence and prevent personal burnout.
It presents practical insights from the new field of Positive Psychology and teaches actions proven to increase life satisfaction and happiness - even in the presence of ongoing stresses.

The seminar received enthusiastic praise by attendees when it was presented at at the 2008 NLN International Conference in San Diego, CA.

You will gain an understanding of useful concepts and tools, and you will have multiple opportunities to practice the actual skills and identify ways to apply them to your individual practice and to the challenges you and your patients face.

Learn to:
Help patients resolve emotional challenges that interfere with adherence
Identify your patient's 'stage of change'
Tailor your response to their stage of change
Use effective communication skills
Prevent burnout using 3 techniques to decrease negatives
Prevent burnout using 6 techniques to increase positives