Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice by Robert J Wicks
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: * Provides critical information about the dangers of compassion fatigue/burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress disorder in health care settings · 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 * 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 * 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 * 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.
Reading DrRobert Wicks' Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is both a personal and professional pleasure I particularly enjoyed completing the Medical-Nursing Secondary Stress Questionnaire and using my answers as a 'springboard' for further self-reflection and as the basis for developing my own self-care protocol. I would urge physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to keep a copy of this wonderful resource with them at all times; I certainly intend to do so! * Anne Belcher, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing *
The technical and organizational pressures on those providing medical care today are often overwhelming. This book is a much-needed practical aid which can equip the caregiver with the insights for coping successfully with caregiver stresses. * Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University *
This power-packed book is a must-read for all professionals who are responsible for the health care of others...[It] provides insightful and practical self-care strategies to help us take better care of ourselves so we can be better at what we do and sustain our abilities to do so. * Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing and Director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, Yale University School of Nursing *
The technical and organizational pressures on those providing medical care today are often overwhelming. This book is a much-needed practical aid which can equip the caregiver with the insights for coping successfully with caregiver stresses. * Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University *
This power-packed book is a must-read for all professionals who are responsible for the health care of others...[It] provides insightful and practical self-care strategies to help us take better care of ourselves so we can be better at what we do and sustain our abilities to do so. * Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing and Director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, Yale University School of Nursing *
Robert J. Wicks is a Professor at Loyola College in Maryland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195172232 |
| ISBN 10 | 019517223X |
| Title | Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice |
| Author | Robert J Wicks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2005-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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