PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR30 New Approaches to Combat Staff Burnout and Turnover

New Approaches to Combat Staff Burnout and Turnover

In the past year, staff burnout and turnover have increased significantly in long term care settings. Prior to the pandemic, skilled nursing facilities were reported to have the highest rate of nurse burnout in any setting. Caulfield (2019), estimated the burnout rate among nurses in skilled nursing facilities was 37%, while hospitals showed 34% and other settings showed 22%. Since the pandemic, those numbers have increased significantly. Staff burnout leads to reduced productivity, decreased morale, and negativity in the workplace. In addition, staff turnover leads to financial and systemic distress while threatening the ability to provide quality care to residents in long-term care settings. Providing the appropriate self-care and employee wellness is crucial to reducing these occurrences. This session will provide an overview of employee self-care and wellness while reviewing both predictors of and techniques to combat staff burnout and turnover.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Define and understand employee self-care and wellness.
  • Identify predictors of staff burnout and turnover.
  • Understand and implement strategic interventions to combat staff burnout and turnover.

Tana Whitt, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Tana Whitt, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and the Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Psych360 now part of Mindcare. She graduated from Kent State University with her Masters of Science degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice. Since 2017, her clinical leadership has contributed to the growth of the largest long-term care mental health platform in Ohio serving over 250 long-term care communities through more than 50,000 annual patient encounters. Ms. Whitt is responsible for developing evidence-based practice guidelines, systemic processes and leading the clinical teams throughout Ohio and neighboring states and continues to provide holistic and evidence based psychiatric mental health care to residents in long term care settings throughout Northeast Ohio. As a leader in comprehensive mental health solutions, she is

Nicole Coniglio, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, ACNP-BC

Nicole Coniglio, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, ACNP-BC, is the President, Chief Medical Officer, and Founding Member of Psych360. Since 2015, her strategic and clinical leadership has grown Psych360 from a startup to the largest long-term care mental health platform in Ohio serving over 250 long-term care communities through more than 50,000 annual patient encounters. As a visionary leader in providing psychiatric and psychological solutions in the long-term care industry, Nicole has a passion for evidence-based mental health care, patient experience, and improved quality of life for underserved populations. Ms. Coniglio’s leadership and board experience extends to the PALTC Behavioral and Mental Health Advisory Council, the Geriatric Practice Management Corp, and the Ohio Association of Advanced Practice Nurses. She has been asked to speak at engagements for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, the Ohio Health Care Association, Leading Age, the Geriatric Association of Advanced Practice Nurses, and the Ohio Society of Healthcare Risk Managers. She graduated from Kent State University with her Master of Science in Nursing degree and received her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate from the University of Cincinnati.

  • 1.00 CME
  • 1.00 CMD Management
  • 1.00 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.00 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.


Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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