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This essential guide equips nurses and allied health care professionals with the tools and knowledge for self-care, mindfulness, and overall well-being to enable providing compassionate care for others.
Written by a diverse group of contributors who work within the nursing and allied healthcare fields, this book shares their real-life experiences, expert knowledge, insights, and relational-centred practices. Across 11 chapters, the book covers the distinctive pillars of well-being: Physical (regular exercise, sleeping, and eating well), Emotional (clinical observation, counselling, peer support, and relationships) and Psychological (financial well-being and mental health).
These three pillars of self-care allow for readers to address the importance of establishing the relational aspects of caring as a process that requires as much attention as professional practice expertise. For students and practitioners alike, this book delves into important self-care research and applications for personal and professional lives.
List of contents
Introduction: Who, How and What Can be Done to Support Well-Being at Work? 1. Health, Wealth and Happiness: Is it Possible to Have it All? 2. Survival of the Workforce 3. Deep Level Well-Being: Compassion and Self-Compassion 4. Leading Well and Living Well: A Personal Reflection 5. Well-Being at Work with Some Homework 6. Social Encounters at Work: Sharing is Indeed Caring 7. Gambling with My Well-Being
About the author
Sally Hardy is closely linked with health and social care, through working with individuals, teams and organizations, promoting practitioner-led inquiry and transformational change through evidence-based health care. Sally's work now focuses on leading the Norfolk Initiative for Coastal and rural Health Equalities (NICHE), Anchor Institute for the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System. Sally's research embraces understanding what factors contribute to sustainable workplace cultures and effective health and social care systems. She has recently taken on the leadership role of the NICHE Anchor Institute at UEA, and has become a non-executive director with Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Trust.
