Interrupting Microaggressions & Repairing Harm in Healthcare

Interrupting Microaggressions & Repairing Harm in Healthcare

MGH Institute of Health Professions & Spaulding Rehabilitation Network

When a microaggression occurs, healthcare workers will feel empowered to provide feedback to colleagues, to reflect, and to have the tools to repair any harm they caused. This training will help workers recognize when a microaggression has occurred and how to discuss it with their coworkers and take steps to mitigate any harm.

Agenda:

Introduction5 minutesKim TroungRecorded video

Module 1: Cultural influences in Health Care 

20 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Recorded video presentation/didactic

Reflection

Module 2: Proximity to Power

20 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

Reflection

Module 3: The Roots of Microaggressions

10 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

 

Module 4: Tools to repair interpersonal harm

45 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

Reflection

Summary

10 minutes

 

Video presentation/didactic

 

Target Audience

This course is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists and other critical care team members.

 

 

Learning Objectives

 

KNOWLEDGE:

This course will help explain the definition and concepts of cultural influence in healthcare, dominant culture, proximity to power, and microaggressions within the field of healthcare. 

COMPETENCE:

This course will examine how consideration of how one’s own identities shape their work in terms of patient care, relationships with co-workers, and supervisory relationships, with opportunities for guided self-reflection.

This course will help teach practical strategies for repairing harm after one commits a microaggression or unintendedly harmful act

 

 

Course summary
Registration opens: 
12/04/2023
Course closes: 
12/03/2024
Rating: 
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Agenda:

Module 1: Cultural influences in Health Care

15 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Recorded video presentation/didactic

Case

Reflection activity #1

5 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Reflection

Module 2: Proximity to Power

15 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

Case

Reflection activity #2

10 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Reflection

Module 3: The Roots of Microaggressions

10 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

Case

Module 4: Tools to repair interpersonal harm

40 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Video presentation/didactic

Case

Reflection activity #3

10 minutes

Mirza Lugo-Neris & Laura Wolford

Reflection

Summary, key takeaways, conclusion

5 minutes

Video presentation/didactic

Case

Didactic


Presenters:

Kimberly A. Truong, PhD MGH                   Chief Equity Officer 

Laura Wolford, PhD, MS, CCC-SLP, CSE     Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Mirza Lugo-Neris, PhD, CCC-SLP               Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Planners:

Lynne Brady Wagner, MS, CCC-SLP

Rebecca Inzana, MS, CCC-SLP, CHSE

Content Reviewers:

Susan Kim, MD

Sharon Fawcett, MSW

Joshua Spencer, PharmD, BCPP

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Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, MGH Institute of Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  

 



2.00 Physicians

MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.


2.00 Nursing Contact Hours

MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 2.0 contact hours for nurses.


2.00 Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 2.00 clock hours for continuing education credits.

2.00 IPCE Credit

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

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