The Nurse's Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion

Nurses work in the foxhole of the healthcare battlefield. Their work is emotionally grueling and physically draining. This easy-to-follow book offers a new skill set to cope with the challenges of nursing and sustain compassion in the long term. It is the first book to outline how the practices of mindfulness and compassion can help nurses to strengthen resilience and therapeutic presence and revitalize their practice. Backed by scientific evidence, the book teaches mindfulness and compassion practices to lessen stress, enhance relationships, improve patient care, and reduce patient risk. With a new understanding of everyday mindfulness and compassion, nurses can overcome the myriad contemporary challenges inherent in the workplace—and in their own lives. This book will show you how to: - Nurture others without depleting yourself - Overcome compassion fatigue and burnout - Decrease frustration and job overwhelm - Reduce mistakes through managing attention - Respond rather than react to crises.