Stress, Anxiety, Perfectionism, Burnout, and Substance Use: How Dental Healthcare Professionals Can Mitigate Impairment and Enhance Wellness to Promote Clinical Excellence!

Description

In this lecture/discussion-based educational activity, examine and discuss the effects stress, anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and substance use can have on our mental health and how it may affect our dental practices and our wellbeing. Special emphasis will be placed on ways and ideas that can help us develop and maintain our well-being and mental health in our dental practices and lives. This 3-hour educational activity meets the NC Board of Dental Examiner's biannual requirement of continuing education on substance abuse and mental health for dentists and dental hygienists, as well as the annual safe opioid prescribing continuing education requirement for dentists.

Note: While this is planned to be an in-person only educational activity, if needed for health & safety at the time of the event, it may be pivoted to a webinar.

Target Audience

Dental Healthcare Providers

Objectives

• Recognize signs and symptoms of associated mental health disorders (stress, anxiety, perfectionism, and burnout) that may affect our dental practices and our well-being
• Identify steps and techniques that can mitigate unnecessary stressors in our practice along with maintaining clinical excellence and sound patient care
• Describe a plan to alleviate the 6 main stressors associated in the dental workplace that may lead to burnout and unwanted substance use
• Develop an understanding of the role that perfection may play in our lives and practices and ways to deal with it in a constructive and productive manner
• Cite safe opioid prescribing practices

Faculty

• Bill W. Claytor, Jr., DDS, MAGD