APNA14: You Can't Learn Mindfulness in a Weekend Workshop

Conferencing with an infant is certainly a unique experience! I had a blast reconnecting with many of my teachers and mentors while getting an infusion of professional and EBP goodness, though I must admit I missed my UT-DNP peeps.  Every year I get to add to my list of memorable interpretive quotes and insights from the APNA conference, and APNA 14 was no exception. I am going to forgo an in-depth recap of this year's events and share some of my favorite gems. If you were there, you know who and where they came from!

• We don't give enough credit to how difficult it is to be fully present

• Mindfulness is the antidote to mind wandering and time travel

• Nurses feel they have to be twice as good to be any good

• Perfect is the enemy of good

• Negotiation of difference is what we all have in common

• Assessment tools without the patient narrative assess very little

• In nursing, you can have a mid-life crisis every 7-years

• If you can't squeeze water out of a rock, don't blame the rock

• Nursing as a fall-back position is not exactly what you would call a career path

• I hope to have at least two more disclosures by the end of the month

I am already looking forward to APNA15 in Disney World - if it isn't the happiest place on earth when the psych nurses get there, believe it will be by the time we leave!

Traumatic Birth Experience: APNA28

This was very much a professional departure and a personal journey

Grieving Through Grateful: Reconciling the Traumatic Birth Experience from Jaclyn Engelsher, DNP

Community and Peer Support Reference Links:

Baby Center Community Disappointing Birth Experience

Pinterest Traumatic Birth Resources  

Facebook

• Unplanned CBAC and Birth Trauma Support Group 
• Birth Trauma Association

Solace for Mothers

• Website:  http://www.solaceformothers.org 
• Forum: http://mothers.solaceformothers.org

Twitter

• @BirthTraumaHelp
• @PostpartumHelp

ICAN: International Cesarean Awareness Network


Additional references:

• Childbirth and criteria for traumatic events
• Predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth 
• Prevalence and risk factors of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis