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Below are several books of particular interest to nurses related to their wellness. More print and electronic books are available on topics such as professional burnout and resilience.
B Is for Balance A Nurse’s Guide to Caring for Yourself at Work and at Home by
2nd edition - B is for Balance is about the individual nurse – the professional, the multi-tasker, the ‘be all things to all people'leader. While the first edition of B is for Balance was well-received and has been a great resource to nurses and other professionals, the second edition has been updated to focus on 12 steps to balance, including engagement, focus, sleep deficits, fatigue, diet, re-inventing one's career, and the need for each of us to live longer and to live well.
Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Nurse Leadership by
This book uses real-life stories to provide nurses in all practice settings with a model and methods to cultivate the personal, professional and organizational resilience they need to achieve nursing's vision of a transformed 21st-century health care system. The book is broken into four sections, each illuminating the concept of leadership resilience, what it takes to become a resilient leader, how to put your leadership resilience into action and how to foster resilient organizations.
Coping with Caring: A Nurse's Guide to Better Health and Job Satisfaction by
This book provides the nurse, and the administrators who manage them, with an overview of the psychological disorders that are prevalent in their profession, first-person narratives from nurses who share traumatic and/or stressful situations that have impacted their career and provide detailed descriptions of promising coping strategies that can be used to mitigate symptoms of distress.
Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice by
2nd edition - The mental and physical health of caregivers impacts more than just that individual worker. It affects the health of their patients, it impacts their families, it shapes communities, it influences politics, and it plays into international relations. Overcoming Secondary 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.
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