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STAFF-RESIDENT RELATIONSHIPS:  
THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Boundary violations can and do occur in the healthcare setting, producing adverse consequences for the agency, the staff, the client, and the family member(s).  It is important for staff and the institution to be aware of boundary issues, prevent violations, and develop healthy, well-defined boundaries between staff and clients as well as with the client’s family member(s).  Establishing healthy boundaries is a learning process as each staff member defines and refines his or her personal and professional boundaries.  This learning process is usually a matter of balance rather than of being a “perfect staff member”.  The balance of ego boundaries includes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and financial areas of life.  This interactive lecture-discussion program will explore the personal characteristics and/or unmet ego/emotional needs of the staff that either promote healthy boundaries or place the staff member at risk; the negative and/or perceived positive consequences related to boundary crossing; the motivation for the client to give gifts, money, compliments, etc.; the “balance of power” wherein staff are vulnerable to boundary violation; and a typical behavior pattern of staff, clients, and the family member when a boundary violation is occurring.  It will also examine how to find the middle ground when it comes to caring and doing too much for clients.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• discuss the purpose of healthy boundaries

• identify the unmet ego needs of a staff person that might contribute to boundary crossing

• identify six issues related to the “balance of power” in the institutional setting

• discuss five negative and five perceived positive consequences related to boundary crossing behavior

• differentiate between a client’s genuine vs. ulterior motivation for giving gifts, money, compliments, etc.

• identify a pattern of behavior that exists before, during, and after a boundary violation

• describe nine categories of unethical behaviors ranging from innocuous to destructive

• differentiate the range of personality traits that can create, contribute to, or maintain unethical behavior, as well as differentiate personality traits that can create, contribute to, or continue ethical behavior of the staff.

FACULTY:  
Wayne P. Sisson, MA, is currently the Associate Director of the Southwest Health Professions Education Center, Inc./VA Employee Education System, Prescott Center, Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System in Prescott, Arizona. 
Prior to joining that program, he was an addiction therapist at the VA Medical Center's inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Program from 1980 to 1994. He was also the program director and addiction therapist at La Casita, Inc., a residential alcohol treatment center in Tucson, Arizona from 1978 to 1980. Mr. Sisson has presented numerous continuing education programs on various aspects of substance abuse.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  TBA 

CE STATEMENTS: The Southwest Health Professions Education Center, Inc. (SEC) certifies this program for 3 contact hours.  A certificate of attendance will be awarded. The Southwest Health Professions Education Center, Inc. (SEC) is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider # CEP 11270.  This program is approved for 3 credit hours.  

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SOUTHWEST HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION CENTER, INC
500 N. HIGHWAY 89 (OP SEC) PRESCOTT, AZ 86313-5000
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