Trauma Informed Approaches to Primary Care
Calling all primary care providers (family physicians, nurse practitioners, interdisciplinary team members and medical staff)! Come join this focused discussion with fellow primary care providers where we will offer insights on trauma informed care, managing boundaries and compassionate disinterest. How do providers offer a safe respectful space for our patients while maintaining boundaries and limits? Common coping mechanisms are rescuing the patient (working harder than they are) or avoidance/minimizing their issues. Both of these techniques will overwhelm the provider in the long term.
This course is a full day CPD event looking at trauma informed care in more detail. We feel that trauma informed care is as transformative for the care of difficult patients as hand washing was for infectious disease. Trauma informed care is a core skill or threshold concept- a key competency that is foundational for rewarding patient interactions. This full day event about trauma informed care offers skills for managing difficult therapeutic relationships that will be used over the course of one’s career.
Come connect with colleagues and community partners while learning about trauma-informed care, its importance in our health-care system and how this aligns with the FLA OHT Health Homes vision that we are building together. The day's events are sponsored by FLA OHT, in partnership with Kingston Community Health Centres' (KCHC) Teach Resilience, a social enterprise of Pathways to Education. $25 registration fee. Please note all proceeds of this training will be reinvested into KCHC Pathways to Education - a vital resource for youth in our community.
About the day
In the morning from 8:30 am - 1 pm, Teach Resilience will lead a session on trauma-informed care and building resilience. For the afternoon, KCHC physicians Mary Rowland and Rupa Patel will discuss how to apply trauma-informed care concepts into practice.
Course objectives: By the end of the day participants will be able to:
Explain what ACEs are and how they impact health outcomes
Identify common presentations of trauma in primary care
List 6 effective pillars to support those living with ACEs
Evaluate possible triggers in their practice environments
Apply principles of trauma-informed care in their daily work
Demonstrate practical approaches to use with emotionally dysregulated adults
Accreditation: For healthcare professionals, this is a professional learning activity which will provide up to 6 hours of Continuing Education. For Family Medicine Specialists, this 1-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Queen's University for up to 6 Mainpro+ credits. Official certificates from Queen’s University will be provided after course completion.
Who: All healthcare professionals and medical staff from the primary care community are welcome to join both sessions. This may include physicians, nurse practitioners, interdisciplinary team members and support staff who interact with patients on a daily basis.
