A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare

A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare looks at how to maintain wellbeing in today's challenging healthcare environments, enabling practitioners to make a positive difference to the care environment whilst providing compassionate care to patients.

This practical guide focuses on strategies to maintain health and wellbeing as health care practitioners, in relation to stress management, resilience and positivity. Health and social care practitioners have been challenged over and above anything they have faced before due to the Covid pandemic. These situations have caused extreme trauma and stress to patients, their loved ones and those who have been struggling to care for them. The book highlights why resilience and good stress management are crucial, and how they can be achieved through a focus on wellbeing and positivity, referring to her RESPECT toolkit: Resilience, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Positivity, Energy and motivation, Challenge and Team leadership.

This is essential reading for all those working in healthcare today who are passionate about compassionate care and want to ensure that they remain positive and well, particularly newly qualified staff.

Auteur

Claire Chambers teaches on the pre-registration nursing programme and foundation programme within the Open University, UK. She has previously taught at Oxford Brookes University and practised as a health visitor and a nurse in a range of community and acute settings.

Elaine Ryder works for Age UK with older people with mental health needs. She has previously had roles as a district nurse, community practice teacher, nurse manager and educator within primary care.

Texte du rabat

A guide to compassionate healthcare looks at how you can maintain your own wellbeing in today's challenging healthcare environments, making a positive difference to your workplace and providing compassionate care to patients without fear of burnout.

This practical guide outlines the reasons why resilience and good stress management are so important, and how they can be achieved through a focus on wellbeing and positivity. Using their newly developed RESPECT toolkit, the authors introduce a range of strategies to incorporate into your daily life. With a chapter focusing on each element of the model - Resilience, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Positivity, Energy and motivation, Challenge and Team leadership - the book includes overviews of the relevant evidence, exercises, case studies and practice recommendations.

This is an important book for all those working in healthcare today, particularly newly qualified staff.

Contenu

1. Introduction

2. Resilience

3. Emotional intelligence

4. Stress management

5. Positivity

6. Energy and motivation

7. Challenge

8. Team leadership