Jessica Sima joins Denise to share how she healed from burn-out, a transformation she’ll discuss during her presentation at The Caring Conference on March 25.

About Jessica Sima, MSN, RN, ACM, CCC, Your Presenter
Jessica is currently working as an oncology nurse navigator at a community cancer center. She comes with over 20 years of experience as a nurse and ten years as a certified nurse case manager, including an extensive background with inpatient and outpatient hospital case management. Jessica has expertise in case management from admission to discharge. She is a certified caregiving consultant, facilitator, and educator. As a mother of two, a caregiver for her mother with end-stage liver disease, and a guardian for her developmentally delayed brother, she is no stranger to overwhelm and pressure. Her professional and personal caregiving journey put her in a unique position relating to family caregivers as a nurse, case manager, and caregiver herself. Jessica brings experience in managing the healthcare system, inpatient care, outpatient care, and discharge planning.

About Denise
Denise develops and leads training and leadership opportunities to help individuals transform a personal caregiving experience into a volunteer opportunity, a small business or a career change. More than 300 individuals from seven countries have enrolled in Denise’s training programs. Denise began supporting family caregivers in 1990, launching one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996. She sold the community in March 2020 to Ohio’s Hospice. She convened a National Caregiving Conference for four years (2016-2019), hosted a 36-hour Christmas chat for six years and celebrated creative side of family caregivers with an online Caregiving Art Show. Her research shined a light on family caregiver stress, the needs of working family caregivers and the daily challenges faced by family caregivers. She was a 2017 Influencer in Aging. Denise is the author of several books including "Healing Words: Soothing Strategies for Your Caregiving Fatigues," "The Caregiving Years, Navigating the Six Caregiving Stages and the Take Comfort series." Denise also helps her parents, who are 90 and 87. Learn more at https://www.careyearsacademy.com.