Trauma-Informed Care: Taking Care of Our Patients, Their Families, and Ourselves enduring module is a recording from the live Regularly Scheduled Series held on April 9, 2025. If you received credit for attending this session during the live meeting, please refrain from claiming credit for this module.

Faculty

Needs Statement

UK HealthCare recognizes the importance of reducing the potential for traumatic stress on patients, families, and care providers. Understanding the impact of emotional/medical trauma helps inform the care team on potential paths for recovery and reduces the impact of post-traumatic stress reactions on patient recovery through the translation of trauma-informed care techniques into daily practice.

Target Audience

UK HealthCare Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses

Objectives

After this session participants will be able to:

• Define medical traumatic stress & describe impact of trauma exposure
• Discuss emotional trauma symptoms
• Translate trauma-informed care techniques into daily practice

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CNE
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour.

Faculty Disclosure

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgement

In collaboration with UK HealthCare.