Certificate in Heroic Leadership in Healthcare
Online Certificate
Designed for all healthcare professionals, this program provides you with an in-depth accounting of your lives as leaders. Over the course of 8 weeks, world-renowned author Chris Lowney and senior executives in healthcare and leadership will bring clarity into your everyday lives, strengthen your capacity to connect with co-workers, teams, and patients, and make deep connections between personal purpose and workplace mission.
Strength to Endure Resilience Program
Strength to Endure Resilience Program
Online Micro-Course
The Strength to Endure program empowers you and teaches you how to optimize your mental and physical energy by maintaining well-being, preparing for adversity, and applying mental skills in the moment. This hour-long course is broken up into bite-sized pieces so you can easily learn for a few minutes at a time. Course materials include a collection of references and downloadable resources including meal plans and worksheets.
Duration:
Approx. 1 hour
Price:
Free
CEs:
1
Partner:
Program Overview
In response to COVID-19 and with the goal of giving back to the healthcare community, OpusVi has partnered with the University of Exeter to develop this micro-course designed for frontline healthcare workers to strengthen resilience, improve overall well-being, and navigate the incredibly challenging times at present and to come.
Recognizing that the same strategies used by elite athletes to endure high-pressure moments could be leveraged by healthcare workers facing immense stress, we’ve teamed up with experts at the University of Exeter, the No. 2 University for Sports Science in the UK according to the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020, to deliver a mobile app-based learning experience and help healthcare workers develop strategies to enable them to function at their best, even under the most difficult conditions.
Learner FAQs
Shared Common Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication
- Quality and Patient Experience
- Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Resilience
- Cultural Engagement
Specialty Areas Supported
Unit-Specific Pathways
- MedSurg-Tele
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Emergency Room (ER)
- Labor & Delivery (L&D)
- Mother Baby Care (MBC)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Cath Lab
- Hospice
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Access Hospitals
Specific MedSurg Competencies
- Surgical Care
- Integumentary
- Respiratory
- Hematology
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Neurological
FAQs
We are your partners from start to finish. View this FAQ for more information on who brings what to the table.
Lessons
Psyching Up Your Mindset
- Mental Toughness: Your Available Mental Reserves
- Functional Mental Toughness: Developing a Resilient Mindset
- Thrive: Optimizing Your Mental Toughness
- Prepare: Planning and Preparation for Challenges
- Activate: Taking Charge in the Moment
- Activate: Improving Self-Talk
- Activate: Tipping the Balance
- Activate: Constructive Evaluation
Fueling Up For Shift Work
- Meals: Eating Well to Thrive
- Snacks: Keeping Hunger Under Control
- Drinks: Staying Hydrated During Long Shifts
Keeping Up With Shift Work
- Meal Patterns: Planning How You Fuel Up
- Shift Work and Sleep: Timing and Practical Tips
A Collection of References and Downloadable Resources
Outcomes
- Improve your mental health and wellness
- Increase mental toughness in times of high stress
- Learn strategies to take care of your nutrition and hydration
- Gain tools and develop skills from sports sciences
- You will earn 1 CEU/CME from ANCC or AMCC
Who should take this program?
All healthcare workers working on the front lines internationally, including:
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Paramedics
- Healthcare assistants
- Respiratory physiotherapists
- Radiographers
- Physician assistants
- Pharmacists
Program Delivery
This micro-course is delivered via EdApp, which is an award winning, mobile first microlearning platform with integrated authoring, spaced repetition, and gamification.
Learn to be more resilient through an app that is easy to use and can be accessed anytime on your iOS or Andoid mobile device. The 1-hour long program can be completed in bite-size pieces of a few minutes a day alongside a busy work schedule.
About the University of Exeter
Exeter is ranked No. 10 in the world for sport-related subjects in the QS World University Rankings 2020 and is consistently ranked in the top 3 in the UK for Sports Science in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. 98% of the University’s research is rated as being of international quality, with 82% rated world-leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework 2014) and Exeter has a “Gold” Rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment.
The University of Exeter combines teaching excellence and high levels of student satisfaction with world-class research. Ranked top 15 in all the UK’s major league tables, Exeter is a Russell Group institution with over 23,500 students from more than 130 countries around the world.
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