CE Session: SHIFT to Professional Paradise: Five Steps to Less Stress, More Energy & Remarkable Results at Work

Presented by: Vicki Hess, RN, CSP, MS

Learn how to decrease stress, and increase energy and job satisfaction!

Description: Many people are waiting for their boss, organization, coworkers or customers to change, because they think that when other folks get it right, then they will be happy at work. The fact of the matter is that each of us is the CPO – Chief Paradise Officer – of our job. Accepting responsibility for creating our own Professional Paradise creates long-term behavior changes and develops an emotional commitment that leads to remarkable results and job satisfaction.

Key course benefits:

• Define what Professional Prison and Professional Paradise mean to you
• Create and maintain positive connections with customers and coworkers
• Apply the proprietary SHIFT™ technique to turn workplace POWs into WOWs, transforming stumbling blocks into stepping-stones

This is a Gannett Education CE event. Participants who attend the session and complete an evaluation will earn 1.0 contact hours of continuing nursing education.

Who should attend: registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, new graduate nurses, nursing students, etc.

There is no cost for attending the CE course. For more details, please call Gannett Education at 800-866-0919.

Vicki Hess, CSP, RN, MS is the founder and principal of Catalyst Consulting, LLC. A skilled Escape Artist, she helps people escape from Professional Prison and provides a passport to Professional Paradise. A highly-regarded speaker, author, facilitator and consultant, Vicki is an expert in employee engagement, team dynamics, and workforce and leadership development, with more than 25 years of hands-on business experience. Prior to starting her company in 2001, she was responsible for non-clinical employee training, team building, customer service and leadership development for 6,000 employees at LifeBridge Health. A registered nurse, she also has more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from Towson University and was an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Business for five years, teaching “Principles of Training and Development.” Vicki’s professional experiences and original workplace research led her to develop her proprietary Professional Paradise™ concept and proven SHIFT™ methodology for permanently changing unproductive thought patterns, actions and habits. When life threw her a sucker punch in 2008 and she was diagnosed with stage one ovarian cancer, she used her own strategies and techniques to prove that we can shift and find authentic joy at work and in life, no matter what comes our way. (After surgery and chemotherapy, Vicki’s prognosis is now excellent.) Vicki is the author of SHIFT to Professional Paradise: 5 Steps to Less Stress, More Energy & Remarkable Results at Work and the 28-Day Diary Series™ – a collection of innovative workbooks which transform readers through long-term habit change. Vicki’s husband, two almost grown sons and dog Gabby are the source of much of her joy and humor.

GOT QUESTIONS?  FIND OUT MORE - VICKI HESS, CSP, RN, MS vicki@vickihess.com | 410-560-7212 http://www.vickihess.com Vicki Hess has been training business and healthcare professionals on and off since 1983. Without question, she understands what it takes to create long term habit change in employees and leaders. Vicki has creative, proven ideas for making the concepts of Professional Paradise stick! Because after all, who wouldn't want to work in Professional Paradise?

St. Vincent's Behavioral Health Services
Westport Campus
47 Long Lots Road
Westport, CT 06880
http://www.stvincents.org/

St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT is a 473-bed community teaching and referral hospital with a Level II trauma center and a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport. St. Vincent’s provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient services with regional centers of excellence in cardiology, surgery, cancer care, orthopedics, diagnostics, women’s and family services, behavioral health, senior health and an array of specialized services.
In the past St. Vincent's has been recognized as one of the top 100 heart hospitals in the United States. St. Vincent's has earned national and regional recognition for the compassion of its staff, the commitment to patient satisfaction and the quality of its care.

St. Vincent's has an active medical staff of 450 physicians representing a comprehensive range of more than 50 specialty and subspecialty medical and surgical disciplines.

St. Vincent's is a member of Ascension Health.

Seminar sites are handicapped accessible and barrier-free.

Seminar room temperatures are difficult to control. For your comfort, please plan accordingly.

ALL programs must be attended in their entirety in order to receive a certificate of completion.

Complementary parking is available on site.

Directions:

From CT Turnpike - I-95:

Off I-95, take Exit 18 (Sherwood Island) -- If coming from the North (going southbound), go right off exit ramp -- If coming from the South (e.g. New York), turn left at stop sign off exit ramp; Go – 1 mile toward Westport and U.S. 1 (the third traffic light); Turn left on to U.S. 1; Make immediate hairpin turn to the right (after passing Bertucci's Restaurant) on to Long Lots Road; Proceed on Long Lots Road for one-half mile; Look for the St. Vincent's Behavioral Health Services, Westport Campus sign on your left. Proceed along driveway – you will see a parking area to your left.  Proceed to the “Main Entrance.”

From the Merritt Parkway:

Take Exit 42 (Westport/Weston) turning toward -- If coming from the North (going southbound), turn right at light at end of exit ramp and go underneath the parkway -- If coming from the South (e.g. New York), turn left at light at end of exit ramp; Right away, the road divides. Stay to the left and go straight through to the 4-way stop sign; Go straight for –1/4 mile – at the next STOP sign, turn left to Cross Highway; Proceed on Cross Highway for – 1 mile to STOP sign at North Avenue; Turn right on to North Avenue and proceed –1.5 miles to STOP sign at Long Lots Road; Turn right on to Long Lots Road and go – 4/10 mile; The St. Vincent's Behavioral Health Services, Westport Campus sign will be on your right; Proceed along driveway to parking area; Use the “Main Entrance” to the Hospital and Reception area, follow signs.

Questions? Please contact us at 800-866-0919 or events@gannetthg.com.

Disclosures

Seminars must be attended in their entirety and the evaluation form must be completed to receive a certificate of completion.

The speaker has declared no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity.

Gannett Education guarantees that the content of these educational activities are free from bias.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with this activity.

These CNE activities do not include any unannounced information about off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Accreditation

Gannett Education, formerly known as Nursing Spectrum Division of Continuing Education, is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Gannett Education is also accredited by the Florida Board of Nursing (provider no. FBN 50-1489) and the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider no. CEP 13213).