Sara Lefkowitz – Nursing Stress And Exhaustion
- Faculty: Sara Lefkowitz
- Duration: 6 Hours 1 Minutes
- Format: Audio and Video
- Copyright: Mar 21, 2019
Description
Your work can change the trajectory of lives. And providing healing, ending pain, and restoring the hope of your patients is meaningful beyond words.
But the intense pressures of being a nurse can threaten your career. Emotionally drained, physically exhausted and feeling unsure and unsupported; the negativity, frustration, and resentfulness can seep into your life inside and outside of work. As you dread your next shift, the downward spiral has begun and could end with you exiting the profession you once cherished.
This powerful recording will provide you with the skills, tools and techniques you need to manage the stress and emotional complexities unique to nursing. You will be empowered to overcome career-threatening burnout and regain your purpose and passion for the critical work you are entrusted to provide.
You’ll learn proven techniques to help you handle the most stressful and burnout-inducing situations you commonly face. Walk away with new insights to bring immediate physical and emotional calm when dealing with abusive patients, long-term strategies to maintain genuine compassion, skills to contribute to positive and rewarding relationships with colleagues and a plan to live a healthy, balanced, happy life.
Leave breathing a deep sigh of relief, knowing you have the tools you need to continue this incredibly rewarding work with renewed energy, joy and purpose!
Handouts
| Manual – Nursing Stress and Exhaustion (9.9 MB) | 94 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Unrelenting Stress Kills
- Self-evaluate: Identify your thorniest work stressors
- Discover ten in-the-moment stress busters
- Stress is a given, but what do you want your response to look like?
Managing the Demanding Patient
- De-escalate any situation with nonviolent communication strategies
- Consider… the impact of uncertainty, lack of information and loss of control
- The two parts of communication: Expressing honestly and listening empathically
Strategies for Stressful Work Overload
- Identify your triggers for emotional nursing distress: Maslach Burnout Inventory
- The Burnout Triad: Depersonalization, overwhelm and loss of personal efficacy
- De-stress in the middle of a busy shift
- Time management skills
Techniques to Bring Calm in High Acuity and Emergency Scenarios
- Processing intense emotions: It’s not for the faint of heart
- Create a ‘Calm Kit’ to get you back in the zone
Handle Unsupportive or Abusive Co-Workers
- How to say what you want, get what you need and not irritate everyone along the way
- Managing bullying and blaming
- Communication practice scenarios:
- You want to tell a co-worker that she really needs to step it up at work
- A co-worker is blaming you for a poor patient outcome
- You need help with a patient today and no one working is very approachable
- Team-building strategies to increase support and cooperation
Increase Job Satisfaction with Caring, Compassion and Gratitude Exercises
- Discover compassion: The road between caring too much and being too burnt out to care
- Don’t let mind traps/habitual thinking get you stuck
- Are you experiencing empathic distress?
- Attributes of resiliency
Achieve a Healthy Balance Between Home and Work
- How personal, interpersonal and organizational factors contribute to overall burnout
- Give yourself kindness
- Name and process your emotions
Sleep Disturbances and Anxiety
- Current best practices for shift work/sleep cycles
- Quiet your mind so the work day does not replay
Red Flags: Self-Evaluation for Excessive Stress and Burnout
- Strategies to bring closure to the workday
- Distinguish between venting, complaining and processing the workday
- Meditation and the link to workplace outcomes
- Apply self-care – your most important survival strategy!
Faculty
Sara Lefkowitz, RN, BSN, MPA Related seminars and products: 5
Sara Lefkowitz, RN, BSN, MPA, is a dynamic and engaging speaker who presents highlyacclaimed seminars on Stress Reduction for Nurses throughout the United States. She has firsthand knowledge of the challenges that nurses face through her years working in large urban hospitals on Medical Surgical Units and in the Emergency Department. She did this while being a wife and mother, and understands the difficulties of juggling family and career responsibilities.
In 2013, Sara undertook a course of study to learn practical techniques to heal the healer. She studied Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and trained as a facilitator. She studied Vipassana Meditation at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She learned compassion practices from studying Vajrayana Buddhism at Tara Mandala Meditation Center. Other notable influences in the development of this workshop include Rick Hanson, Christine Neff and Nonviolent Communication. During this experiential and careerchanging workshop, Sara will teach you how to calm the mind, soothe the emotions and speak up for the profession.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sara Lefkowitz is a tenured nursing faculty for College of Marin. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Sara Lefkowitz is a member of the American Nurses Association; and the San Francisco Bay Area Tara Mandela Sangha.
Sara Lefkowitz – Nursing Stress and Exhaustion
Break the Burnout Cycle. Rebuild Your Energy. Reclaim Your Purpose in Nursing.
In a profession where compassion is a requirement and pressure is constant, it’s no surprise that nurses across all specialties find themselves battling chronic fatigue, emotional depletion, and a sense of disconnect from the career they once loved. Sara Lefkowitz’s Nursing Stress and Exhaustion course is an empowering program that speaks directly to these challenges, offering clear, science-informed solutions for restoring well-being, balance, and inner strength.
Designed by a nurse, for nurses, this course blends emotional resilience strategies, practical stress reduction tools, and nervous system education to help you navigate high-stakes environments without burning out.
What You’ll Gain in This Program
Through an integrative, trauma-informed lens, this course helps you recognize, regulate, and reverse the cumulative toll that stress has taken on your body, mind, and heart.
Understand the Physiology of Chronic Stress
Explore how relentless activation of your stress response impacts immunity, cognition, sleep, digestion, and long-term vitality.
Decode Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Differentiate the subtle signs of emotional exhaustion, disillusionment, and secondary trauma—and learn how to reverse them safely and sustainably.
Rewire Your Nervous System for Regulation
Engage in evidence-based practices to activate parasympathetic states, discharge accumulated tension, and cultivate embodied calm—even in the midst of chaos.
Develop Boundaries Without Guilt
Learn how to communicate your needs, protect your energy, and maintain presence with patients and yourself—without emotional withdrawal.
Build a Sustainable Self-Care Architecture
Move beyond bubble baths and into resilience rituals that integrate into your daily workflow, no matter how full your schedule is.
Reconnect With Meaning and Motivation
Rediscover why you entered this profession—and how to reignite that internal spark without needing to leave your role to feel whole again.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed specifically for healthcare professionals experiencing physical exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, or moral injury within their roles, including:
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Bedside nurses and charge nurses in high-pressure units
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Nurse educators and clinical leaders who support other caregivers
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New graduates navigating the early stages of professional adjustment
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Nurses on the verge of quitting or seeking career alternatives
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Anyone in nursing seeking renewal, not just survival
No prior experience in trauma education or stress recovery is necessary—only a desire to feel human again inside your scrubs.
About Sara Lefkowitz
Sara Lefkowitz, RN, BSN, has spent over two decades at the intersection of clinical practice, trauma education, and nervous system regulation. With deep empathy for the realities nurses face and rigorous training in somatic healing, Sara brings a refreshing mix of realism and renewal. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and immediately applicable to daily life in healthcare.
She’s helped hundreds of nurses reconnect to their purpose, reclaim their resilience, and build careers that serve them as much as they serve others.
Why This Course Makes a Difference
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Created by a nurse who’s walked the path: No theory without lived experience
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Accessible tools, not abstract ideas: You’ll walk away with rituals and strategies that fit into your real schedule
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Focused on nervous system literacy: Because burnout isn’t just mental—it’s physiological
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Shame-free and supportive: This isn’t about telling you to “do more self-care”—it’s about feeling safe in your body again
You’re Meant to Heal—Not Break. Let This Be the Start of Your Return.
Nursing Stress and Exhaustion is your roadmap back to wholeness. It’s not about leaving the profession—it’s about learning to stay in it without losing yourself.
→ Enroll now and take the first step toward sustainable, empowered nursing.
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