How To Motivate Hospitals to Offer TCC Classes

Sharing Knowledge: The Workshops

Led by Bonnie Sokolov

The 1998 Mayo Clinic Health Newsletter recommended Justin’s video for balance and stress reduction but awareness of TCC dwindled over time.

Group Question: How can hospitals be encouraged to offer TCC to their patients and staff?

One health care provider, a pharmacist, stated she felt she was clearer and less likely to make errors with medications.

Group Suggestions on how to encourage hospitals to offer TCC:

1. Utilize community outreach programs to help spread the word.
2. Classes need to be accessible in order for them to be used. Offer weekend classes.
3. Utilize hospitals already set up by health and fitness programs/centers.
4. Arrange CEU credits. Different states have different criteria on whether a nurse needs to give the course. Varies greatly state to state. Doing a Google search by state and then “nursing CEUs”.
5. Find out if anyone from your community education classes works in hospitals and talk to them about avenues into hospital teaching.
6. Offer to do booths at Health Fairs. Sometimes they offer you presentations or seminars during these fairs or will put your literature/brochures out.
7. Work through volunteer coordinators and begin wherever received.
8. Oncology Centers: some resistance encountered because of liability concerns with these patients. Liability insurance may need to be considered at some point.
9. Cancer Wellness Centers: patients are less fragile and may be safer for them.
10. Offer free presentations or mini classes and if that creates an interest, expand it to a class.
11. Offer hospital workers the class for free in exchange for the space but advertise to the public as well for pay.
12. Encourage your students to talk about TCC to their doctors and patient educators.
13. Use stories but do NOT claim TCC will replace medical care.
14. Complementary and integrative departments may be a place to start.
15. Consider talking about TCC as a safe form of self care and patient education. May be offered as stress reduction, balance, and quality of life improvement activity.
16. TCC has/is being offered a part of pain clinic programs in MN and CA.
17. Contact Caregiver Support Groups as a safe and effective model of self care to avoid burnout.
18. Methods of payment: Sometimes bartering can be used; e.g., teach one free class in exchange for use of a room that can be offered for free.