Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice
A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being
ISBN13: 9780195172232ISBN10: 019517223X
Hardback,
216 pages
Aug 2005,
In Stock
Price:
$27.95 (5T)Description
Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being is a concise guide for all medical professionals who face these demands. This book: DT Provides critical information about the dangers of compassion fatigue/burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress disorder in health care settings DT Introduces a newly-developed "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire" that can be profitably self-administered at each phase of one's career and reflected upon in private, with one's mentor, or in a small group setting DT Includes a unique section on strengthening one's inner life through the use of three core spiritual wisdom approaches drawn from a world religion perspective DT Provides a description of four types of "voices" one needs to have in one's circle of friends to ensure that balance, perspective, growth, and challenge are fostered in one's personal and professional life DT Describes how physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals can formulate a personally-designed self-care protocol for themselves Lastly, this book offers an extensive and up-to date bibliography of recent research, clinical papers, and books on medical-nursing practice and secondary stress. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is an indispensable resource for medical and nursing professionals, students, and the counselors and therapists who work with them.Features
- Describes how health care professionals can develop personal self-care protocols.
- Offers a new "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire" for private reflection or for discussion with one's mentor.
- Includes a unique section on strengthening one's inner life through the use of three core spiritual wisdom approaches.
- Offers an up-to-date and extensive bibliography of recent research, clinical papers, and books on medical-nursing practice and secondary stress.
- Provides a description of four "voices" one needs in one's circle of friends to ensure that balance, perspective, growth, and challenge are fostered in one's personal/professional life.
Reviews
"Like most of Wicks' works, this book is easily accessible, presented with real-life examples and interviews, and packed with practical self-help advice. For those who wish to pursue any particular themes touched on in this guide, there are plenty of links to follow."--Vision
"...brief, to the point, and practical...a very valuable resource for any health professional working in today's healthcare arena." (5 Stars--Highest Rating)--Doody's
